While news of the ceasefire plan has brought relief and hope that more aid would flow soon in Gaza, immense hunger still remains.
More than 54,600 children under the age of five in the Gaza strip are estimated to be severely malnourished, according to a new study from researchers with the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) published in the Lancet medical journal yesterday.
The study used upper-arm measurements of children between six months and five years of age to analyze the preval ence of what's known as "acute wasting" — the most severe and life-threatening stage of malnutrition that requires therapeutic treatment.
Children with arm measurements of less than 125 millim etres were referred into UNRWA's feeding program. According to Unicef, children experiencing acute wasting are extremely thin and have weak immune systems, which can lead to developmental delays and disease.
The measurements were taken from over 219,000 c
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