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Doctors Without Borders Accuses Israel of Restricting Aid Creating Malnutrition Crisis in Gaza
Doctors Without Borders released a report stating Israel deliberately restricted food and aid in Gaza between late 2024 and early 2026, resulting in a malnutrition crisis affecting infants, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. The medical charity also examined operations of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.- and Israeli-backed group that replaced much of the United Nations aid…
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Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, has accused Israel of deliberately restricting food and aid in Gaza. The group said this created a "manufactured malnutrition crisis" with particularly severe effects on infants and pregnant and breastfeeding women.
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In a report covering operations at four health facilities it supports in Gaza from late 2024 to early 2026, MSF said it documented higher levels of prematurity and mortality among infants born to malnourished mothers as well as increases in miscarriages.
The charity also examined the impact of the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, a U.S.- and Israeli-backed private organisation established last year to largely replace United Nations distribution of aid. "The malnutrition crisis is entirely manufactured," Merce Rocaspana, MSF’s medical referent for emergencies, said.
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