Gaza children die of hunger as UN, international community fail: Hamas

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has blamed the United Nations and the international community for the death of 13 children in the Gaza Strip from hunger amid Israeli siege and aggression. 

Palestinian medical sources said on Thursday that seven children died because of malnutrition, bringing to 13 the number of children who have lost their lives because of hunger in the northern part of the besieged strip.

The deaths are “a declaration of failure of the international community and the United Nations in carrying out their tasks in protecting children from starvation,” Hamas said in a statement on Friday.

The movement also described the deaths as a “dangerous precedent” in the modern era.

“We renew our call on the United Nations and international relief institutions to take urgent action to save children and civilians in the Gaza Strip, especially in the Gaza and North governorates, and not to submit to the dictates of the criminal Zionist occupation,” the statement said.

Hamas also called on the international community to help deliver food and medical supplies to Gaza urgently “to avoid the increasing catastrophe of famine.”

Israel launched the genocidal war on Gaza early in October. The Tel Aviv regime has also imposed a “complete siege” on the territory, cutting off fuel, electricity, food and water to the more than two million Palestinians living there.