The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced, this evening, Wednesday, that the death toll from malnutrition and dehydration in the Strip had risen from 18 to 20, as a result of the ongoing Israeli war on the Strip since October 7, 2023.

Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said in a statement: “A 15-year-old child died in Al-Shifa Medical Complex (west of Gaza City), and a 72-year-old elderly man died in Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, as a result of malnutrition and dehydration.”

Thus, “the death toll from malnutrition and dehydration rose to 20 in the Gaza Strip,” according to Al-Qudra.

He also stressed that "the announced death toll from malnutrition and dehydration reflects only what reaches hospitals, and we believe that dozens die silently as a result of famine, without reaching hospitals."

Earlier today, Wednesday, Al-Qudra announced, in a statement, that “the death toll from malnutrition and dehydration has risen to 18 persons in the Gaza Strip.”

Al-Qudra stressed that the Israeli army “deliberately committed horrific and successive massacres against thousands of hungry stomachs in northern Gaza.”

He called on "the international community to use all pressure tools to ensure an immediate cessation of the Israeli aggression" on the Gaza Strip.

As a result of the war and Israeli restrictions, the residents of Gaza, especially the Gaza and northern governorates, are on the verge of famine, in light of a severe scarcity of food, water, medicine and fuel supplies, with the displacement of about two million Palestinians from the Strip, which has been besieged by Israel for 17 years.

The Israeli war on Gaza left tens of thousands of civilian victims, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Tel Aviv being brought before the International Court of Justice on charges of “genocide.”