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Source: People's Republic of China – State Council News
GAZA, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) — A million women and girls in Gaza are facing mass starvation, violence and abuse, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) said on social media on Saturday.
“Hunger is spreading rapidly in Gaza… Women and girls are being forced to resort to increasingly dangerous survival strategies, such as going out in search of food and water, at extreme risk of being killed,” UNRWA said in a statement.
The agency called for Israel's blockade of Gaza, home to more than 2 million people, to be lifted and for humanitarian aid to be provided "on the scale required."
The statement came as Gaza's health authorities reported on Saturday that 11 new deaths from starvation and exhaustion had been reported in the past 24 hours, including a child. The total number of deaths from starvation reached 251, including 108 children.
According to official statistics from the enclave's health departments, the total number of Palestinians killed since the start of the current round of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict on October 7, 2023, has exceeded 61,800, while more than 150,000 have been injured. –0–
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