\n At least 76 children in Gaza have died of malnutrition<\/a> since the conflict began in October 2023, as well as ten adults, the Palestinian health ministry says. According to the World Health Organization, most of these occurred since Israeli authorities imposed a blockade at the beginning of March.\n <\/p>\n \n Razan was one of at least four children to succumb in the last three days, the youngest just three months. Over the past 24 hours, 18 deaths have been recorded due to famine in Gaza, the health ministry says, reflecting a deepening crisis in the territory.\n <\/p>\n \n CNN first met Razan a month ago. She was already weak with hunger and pitifully thin. Her mother, Tahrir Abu Daher, said then that she had no money to buy milk, which was in any case rarely available.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cHer health was very good before the war, but after the war, her condition began to deteriorate due to malnutrition. There is nothing to strengthen her.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n That was on June 23. Razan had already been in hospital for 12 days. She clung on to life for another 27 days.\n <\/p>\n \n Razan died amid growing starvation in Gaza, with the flow of humanitarian aid severely reduced since the beginning of March, when Israeli authorities banned convoys from entering Gaza.\n <\/p>\n \n That ban was partially lifted at the end of May, but aid agencies say the amounts reaching the territory far too little to sustain the population.\n <\/p>\n \n Israel said it was halting shipments of aid into Gaza because Hamas was stealing and profiting from it – an allegation Hamas denies. Israeli agencies also say the United Nations has not picked up aid ready to move into Gaza. The UN in turn has said that Israeli forces frequently deny permission to move aid within Gaza, and that much more is waiting to be allowed in.\n <\/p>\n \n Gaza was heavily dependent on aid and commercial shipments of food before the conflict began in October 2023, and shortages of food, medical supplies, fuel and other necessities have only worsened since.\n <\/p>\n \n The scarcity of food since March has sent a rapidly growing number of people to already overwhelmed hospitals.\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cGaza is witnessing the worst phase of famine, which has reached catastrophic levels amid unprecedented international silence,\u201d said Dr. Khalil Al-Daqran, the spokesman for al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital on Sunday, where Razan died.\n <\/p>\n \n Al-Daqran said the infants who were now dying had been robbed of their childhood twice, \u201conce by bombing and killing, and again by depriving them of milk and a piece of bread.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n The health ministry said Saturday that an \u201cunprecedented number of starving citizens of all ages are arriving at emergency departments in severe states of exhaustion and fatigue.\u201d\n <\/p>\n \n \u201cHundreds whose bodies have been severely weakened are now at risk of imminent death due to hunger and their bodies\u2019 inability to endure any longer,\u201d the ministry added.\n <\/p>\n \n The Palestinian Center for Human Rights \u2013 an NGO working in Gaza – reported Sunday that one of its team in Gaza had said: \u201cOur faces have changed and our bodies have wasted away. We no longer recognize each other from extreme emaciation, as if we are slowly fading away and dying.\u201d\n <\/p>\n![\"Razan](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/still-21799021-12818-752-still.jpg\")
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