Gaza baby dies as starvation spreads

Elidalis Burgos, an American intensive voluntary care nurse in Gaza, told NBC News that she had witnessed “a whole population” suffering from famine due to the Israeli blockade.

“The signs are obvious … not only in the USI patients,” she said, “but also the health workers themselves” who presented severe malnutrition, temporal waste, muscle waste and fragility.

“There is simply no food,” said Burgos, who works at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis and volunteering with the medical NGO Glia. “There is nothing to penetrate, has not been doing for months.”

Among the latest victims were Abdulrahman al-Ghalban, 17, who suffered from cerebral paralysis since birth and depended on specialized nutritional milk, specific food and constant medical care, said Dr. Ahmad al-Farra, pediatric specialist at Nasser Hospital.

“He needed a constant special nutrition, but we had nothing,” his mother, Marwa Al-Ghalban, told NBC News. “We tried to feed him everything we could find at home, but in his last days he couldn’t eat at all.”