Somia Abu Naja says her 12-year-old daughter’s weight has plummeted to 20kg as extreme hunger grips the Gaza Strip.
Palestinian children wasting away: Israel’s aid blockade forces closure of soup kitchens
Huda Abu Naja lies weak and emaciated on a thin mattress in her family’s tent in a displacement camp in central Gaza’s Deir el-Balah.
The 12-year-old Palestinian girl’s arms are painfully thin, and the bones on her torso are protruding from under her skin, a telltale sign of her acute malnutrition.
“My daughter has been suffering from acute malnutrition since March when Israel closed Gaza’s borders,” Huda’s mother, Somia Abu Naja, tells Al Jazeera, stroking her daughter’s face.
