“A seven-month-old baby lies in our paediatric intensive care unit, so tiny and malnourished that I initially mistook her for a newborn. The phrase “skin and bones” doesn’t do justice to the way her body has been ravaged. She is literally wasting away before our eyes”
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Surgeon Nick Maynard, volunteering at Gaza’s Nasser hospital, describes witnessing deliberate starvation of children and systematic healthcare destruction. Patients die not from injuries but from severe malnutrition that prevents surgical recovery. Four babies recently died from starvation, not violence. Israel has reduced aid distribution sites from 400 to four militarized zones where desperate civilians face gunfire while seeking food. Maynard reports operating on children shot at these distribution points, including a 12-year-old who died on the operating table. Healthcare workers themselves are malnourished and risk death seeking food. He demands an immediate permanent ceasefire, unrestricted aid flow, and lifting the blockade.