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In total, 150 children have perished by acute malnutrition in the Gaza Strip since the start of the war, according to the latest figures from the Palestinian health authorities.
Announcing Jana's death in an online video message, Unicef Communication director Tess Ingram explained that she had been treated at the hospital twice for the condition and recovered each time to waste on September 17, in the midst of continuous Israeli aid restrictions.
"" The world has failed Jana so many times, she failed her on food, twice"Insisted Ms. Ingram. ""A little girl forced to endure so much pain because of the deliberate decisions that have been made to restrict the entrance to food in the Gaza Strip. ""
Mme Ingram explain that UNICEF originally evacuated Jana (In the above photo) for treatment in the south of Gaza over a year ago and that she had recovered. "I remember holding his fragile little hand and helping him in the ambulance," she recalls.
Once Jana was better and released from the hospital for the first time earlier this year, she and her mother, Nesma, returned to Northern Gaza during the ceasefire to be with their family.
But the help of the aid allowed hunger to return, claiming the life of Jana's sister, two years old, Jouri, in August. At the time, Ms. Ingram warned that Jana was "barely hung" in a Gaza City hospital where she received treatment.
She Also pointed out that the health system broken by the Gaza War was unable to give the child the care she needed. "" His last hope, the medical evacuation of the Gaza Strip, failed it. No country has intervened and could come out Jana"Said the UNICEF worker.
The young people of Gazan who suffer from moderate and severe acute malnutrition receive ready to use therapeutic foods (RUTF) in the last remaining hospitals of the enclave, including at the Friends of the patient Society in Gaza City where Jana was treated.
There are only days, the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO)) warned That four other hospitals had been forced to close in the north of the enclave torn by the war this month only.
Through Gaza, there are only 14 hospitals left, said the United Nations Health Agency, while humanitarian workers have repeatedly warned that they are overwhelmed by trauma and fighting to cope.
UNICEF insisted that the story of Jana and Jouri was a "devastating reminder that the life of children in Gaza is in danger, not only by air strikes, but also by living conditions".
He also pointed out that Gaza's malnutrition crisis has reached catastrophic levels with the entire population of children under the age of five - more than 320,000 children - at risk of acute malnutrition.
In July, 13,000 children were seriously suffering from malnutrition, "the highest monthly figure ever recorded" and representing more than 500% since the start of the year, UNICEF said.
"This war must end now. Aid should be allowed to enter the Gaza strip, including food and nutritional supplies. Humanitarian workers must be allowed to do their job, "said Ms. Ingram.
"The children of Gaza are punished by these decisions and that kills them."
The medical evacuations (Medevacs) of the coordinated band by who follow a strict protocol in seven stages, from the initial reference of the patient by a doctor to the evacuation of the United Nations Health Agency, on the basis of a list subject to the host countries which is then approved by the Israeli authorities.
The latest Omevac data indicates that 7,841 patients were helped to leave Gaza since the war broke out on October 7, 2023, after the terrorist attacks led by Hamas against Israel. More than 5,330 of these patients were children. About 15,600 patients still need medical evacuation from Gaza.
On September 29, which supported the evacuation of 14 patients and 38 companions from Gaza to Jordan and 15 patients and 65 companions in Italy, a field hospital led by the UN partner La Palestinien Red Crescent Society on the Al-Mawasi coastal road.
"Patients, companions and caregivers will start from here with ambulances, buses and escorters from who they pass safely through the combat areas at Kerem Shalom," said Dr. Athanasios Gargavanis, who traumed surgery and the head of Gaza.
He explained that from Kerem Shalom, the Palestinians would leave the strip before being transported to Ramon airport in southern Israel, then in the host countries.
"This is only the tip of the iceberg," said Dr. Gargavanis. "Many other Medevac missions are necessary, and many other receiving countries are necessary. The World Health Organization is committed to supporting such missions. "
Who continues to call for the restoration of medical references to the West Bank and East Jerusalem and for more countries to accept patients.