GAZA CITY, March 10 — The death toll from malnutrition and dehydration in the Gaza Strip resulted from Israel’s ongoing bombardment has risen to 25.
Gazan health ministry said two more deaths were recorded, including an infant.
“A two-month-old female baby died at Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, and another aged 20 at Al-Shifa Medical Complex, due to malnutrition and dehydration,” the ministry said in a statement, quoted Anadolu agency.
“The announced toll of malnutrition and dehydration victims reflects only those who have reached hospitals,” it said.
“The increasing number of malnutrition and dehydration victims is extremely worrying and confirms that famine in northern Gaza has reached lethal levels.”
Israel has waged a deadly military offensive on the Gaza Strip since an October 7 resulting to at least 30,960 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have since been killed in Gaza, and 72,524 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of necessities.
— Bernama-Anadolu
