NEW YORK, August 22, 2025 (WAFA) - UNRWA Commissioner-General, Philippe Lazzarini, warned that severely malnourished children in the Gaza Strip will be "certainly condemned to death" unless aid gets to them quickly.

He stated that hunger levels are particularly severe in the north, where Gaza City is located, and where an estimated one million people continue to reside.

Lazzarini mentioned that an evaluation on how famine has evolved in the Gaza Strip is expected to be released soon. He also noted that UNRWA health centers have experienced a sixfold rise in cases of severely malnourished children since March.

"If no measures are taken immediately, they are certainly condemned to death," he said.

Lazzarini stated that hunger is already causing deaths in the Palestinian territory, and "there will be more, there's no doubt about it.”

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