News - Middle East: UNICEF says health facilities in the besieged Gaza strip remain severely under-equipped as they struggle to treat children who are sick, injured and malnourished.

“I visited four hospitals in the last five days, and I can tell you that every medical director has told me about the impact of the lack of resources and the lack of staff,” UNICEF’s spokeswoman Tess Duncan said from outside the Kuwaiti Hospital in Rafah.
“They’re running at four times capacity. Children are dying due to infections. Children are dying from malnutrition. There’s just not enough staff and resources to go around… That’s why we have to rush this aid in, and that’s why we need a ceasefire.”
Elsewhere in her remarks, Duncan said there are still serious challenges to transporting aid to those most in need due to ongoing violence, collapsed infrastructure, travel restrictions and a shortage of fuel and vehicles.

“The obstacles are many, but we’re still doing our best in these really difficult circumstances to bring food and water and medicine and nutrition treatments to the vulnerable that need it.”