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Over 100,000 children in Gaza at risk of death due to Israeli blockade <article data-history-node-id="426340" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-100000-children-gaza-risk-death-due-israeli-blockade" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-100000-children-gaza-risk-death-due-israeli-blockade" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Over 100,000 children in Gaza at risk of death due to Israeli blockade</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>A mother wept as she cradled the shrouded body of her five-month-old baby, weighing barely 2kg, at a hospital in Gaza on Saturday.</p> <p>Zainab Abu Haleeb, who died from malnutrition, is one of at least five <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a> to have succumbed to starvation in the past 24 hours, as <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>’s siege continues to strangle the Gaza Strip.</p> <p>The distraught mother told Middle East Eye that she had been pleading for months to be evacuated from Gaza and had already prepared the necessary documents.</p> <p>“No one is listening to our pleas,” she said. “The girl suffered a lot during her sickness.”</p> <p>She said that malnutrition, the lack of infant formula and the closure of crossings into Gaza had all worked against her daughter’s survival and the well-being of Gaza’s population as a whole.</p> <h3>Read more: <a aria-label="Over 100,000 children in Gaza at risk of death due to Israeli blockade" href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/over-100000-children-gaza-risk-death-due-israeli-blockade">Over 100,000 children in Gaza at risk of death due to Israeli blockade</a></h3> <div alt="gaza" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="66493052-1f83-446f-9091-4d378797630f" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/000_67PU7T6%20%281%29.jpg" width="2000" height="1124" alt="gaza" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> </div> </div> </article> https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/over-100000-children-gaza-risk-death-due-israeli-blockade