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Gaza's children are recovering from hunger. Doctors fear it won't last. ->National Catholic Reporter | More on "Gaza humanitarian crisis and hunger" at BigEarthData.ai | #IsraelWar #Gaza #Hunger

ncronline.orgGaza's children are recovering from hunger. Doctors fear it won't last.When pediatrician John Kahler from Chicago walked past a garbage dump in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip early 2024, he noticed a family of seven standing beside a parked car, studying the rubbish. He assumed they were searching for something to salvage. Instead, the parents were looking for a place to pitch a tent for their family. On this same trip, he saw hundreds of displaced people waiting in orderly lines for bread and water. At the primary care clinic he helped establish, medical teams sometimes saw 500 to 700 patients daily. Children arrived with seizures and chronic illnesses; their access to specialist treatment beyond Gaza had been cut off. Kahler, a Catholic grandfather of 12, still thinks about that encounter near the dump. For him, it captured how quickly ordinary family life had become a struggle for survival in Gaza and why improved nutrition figures cannot, by themselves, mean recovery. One new study, for example, by the humanitarian medical organization MedGlobal offers unusually hopeful numbers. It says acute malnutrition among children under 5 in Gaza fell by half, from 16.8% in July 2025 to 8.4% in July 2026. Severe acute malnutrition dropped from 6.8% to 2.1%, a 69%...

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