‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula

[bannork]

In the wake of Donald Trump’s extraordinary outburst of profanity outside the White House, a fragile US-brokered truce between Israel and Iran appears to be tentatively holding.

 

In recent days, this has been accompanied by a flurry of messaging from Israel that this cessation of hostilities is just the start.

 

Benjamin Netanyahu, in a brief but emphatic video on Thursday, insisted that after Israel achieved “a great victory” over its staunchest foe, a new opportunity had opened up for a “dramatic expansion of peace agreements”.

 

What next for Gaza as Israel’s shaky truce with Iran holds?

 

MOD EDIT: @bannork your spun text quotes misrepresented the article in a highly dishonest and misleading manner. This needs to stop now. Original article quotes have now been placed,

 

[Mike_Hunt]

Pity.

[Yagoda]

Sucks to be them. Surrender and release the hostages or keep dying. 

[bkk6060]

Too bad.

[bannork]

Israel's military has ordered Palestinians to evacuate from parts of northern Gaza, warning of intense and imminent action there.

 

Posting on X, a spokesman for the IDF told people to head south, where dozens of people have been killed in weekend airstrikes.

 

Shaina Low, of the Norwegian Refugee Council, told DW that people can't travel the route ordered by the Israeli army. 

 

Israel orders Palestinians to leave northern Gaza | Watch

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For the beleaguered staff of Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, one new casualty brought into the emergency department last week posed a particular challenge.

 

He had been wounded moments earlier in the southern Gaza city while fighting in a battle between rival armed gangs over hundreds of valuable sacks of flours stripped from aid convoys and, within an hour of his arrival, men with assault rifles had invaded the hospital.

 

They roughed up medical staff, smashed equipment and set fire to vehicles. 

 

‘Post-apocalyptic’: medical staff struggle as gangs fight over aid supplies in Gaza

 

Please read the whole article to get a sense of the apocalypse Gaza has become.

[bannork]

At least 66 children in Gaza have died from malnutrition since Israel launched a war and blockade on the territory over 20 months ago, local authorities say.

 

Doctors describe newborns wasting away for lack of formula and medical nutrition while families scavenge for any type of milk – none of it suitable for infants.

 

At the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, Dr Ahmad al-Fara, neonatal department head, moves between incubators trying to keep babies alive with dwindling supplies. 

 

Starvation crisis caused by Israeli war and aid blockade kills at least 66 children in Gaza

[DrJack54]

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[bannork]

Doctors in Gaza have warned that hundreds of babies are at risk of death amid a critical shortage of baby milk, as Israel continues to restrict the humanitarian aid that can enter the beleaguered strip.

 

Dr Ahmad al-Farra, the head of paediatrics at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, said his ward had only about a week’s worth of infant formula remaining. 

 

“I can’t begin to describe how bad things are. Right now, we have enough formula for about one week. But we also have infants outside the hospital without any access to milk. It’s catastrophic,” al-Farra told the Guardian over the phone.

 

‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula

 

[Hamus Yaigh]

On 6/29/2025 at 4:48 AM, Yagoda said:

Sucks to be them. Surrender and release the hostages or keep dying. 

The children need to surrender and release the hostages or die? A sick line of thought.

[JAG]

There is certainly an urgent need for baby formula. Are the Israelis preventing its supply (which I doubt), or is Hamas controlling its distribution once inside Gaza?

 

I understand that there is also a grave shortage of heavy grade PVC pipe, and fertilizer - so useful for so many things!

[Bkk Brian]

1 hour ago, JAG said:

There is certainly an urgent need for baby formula. Are the Israelis preventing its supply (which I doubt), or is Hamas controlling its distribution once inside Gaza?

 

I understand that there is also a grave shortage of heavy grade PVC pipe, and fertilizer - so useful for so many things!

The source is important and its only from one "Dr Ahmad al-Farra" from Nasser Hospital.

 

This is the vary same hospital where nearly 30 hostages including children were held for weeks in rooms there as revealed by the hostages themselves. To even contemplate that he was unaware of this would be pure ignorance.

 

He's echoing one of the UN leading officials when he made the false claim that 14,000 babies could die within 48 hours. 

 

Pure propaganda from the Hamas playbook.

 

They spent the weeks in a room on the hospital’s first floor. Stacked boxes separated the hostage section from the rest of the floor, Sharon said. She described sleeping with the girls on a small bed, using a bloodstained pillow. At one point, she said, 12 hostages were packed in the room. Nearby, they learned, were two additional rooms of captives, nearly 30 in total.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/a-freed-israeli-hostage-relives-horrors-of-captivity-and-fears-for-her-husband-still-held-captive-in-gaza

 

Of course the shills and Hamas will deny this even when the hostages themselves prove it as fact.

 

Israel said it launched a "precise and limited mission" at Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, adding it had intelligence that Hamas had held hostages there.

Hamas dismissed the claim as "lies".

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68304979

 

https://www.timesofisrael.com/families-sent-medications-for-hostages-gazan-children-in-eu-aid-shipment-report/