The child's death brings the number of Palestinians who have died of malnutrition during 80 days of siege to 58

A four-year-old boy has died in Gaza City from severe malnutrition caused by Israel’s total blockade of the occupied Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported on Sunday.

Doctors at al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital confirmed that Mohammad Mustafa Yassin, 4, died from prolonged malnutrition.

Yassin’s death brings the number of Palestinians who have died from hunger-related causes to 58 over the past 80 days of the Israeli siege. An additional 242 people - mostly children and the elderly - have also died due to lack of access to food and medicine during this period.

  • Zenith@lemm.eeEnglish
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    3 hours ago

    This is tragic but I’m genuinely confused by an “Arab Baptist” hospital, I was hoping the US had mostly kept one of their worst religions contained

    • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 hours ago

      it was purchased by the southern baptists in 1954 from the Anglican church and returned to them in 1981, the name comes from that period.

      It was founded as the only Christian hospital in 1882 following the need for medical intervention in the region (what was then the Ottoman empire) following the Anglo-Egyptian war.