It is all too easy to trace the skull beneath the Gazan boy’s face, the pallid skin stretching tight over every curve of bone and sagging with every hollow.
The pictures of Yazan circulating on social media have quickly made him the face of starvation in Gaza.
Five months into Israel’s campaign against Hamas and its siege of Gaza, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are close to starvation, United Nations officials say.
At least 20 Palestinian children have died from malnutrition and dehydration, according to Gazan health officials.
Like Yazan, who required medicines that were in acutely short supply in Gaza, many of those who died also suffered from health conditions that further placed their lives at risk, health officials said.
Persons:
Yazan Kafarneh, Yazan, Gazans
Organizations:
Hamas, United Nations
Locations:
Gaza