Malnourished and skeletal hundreds of children in Gauze they die out slowly due to the lack of food and water as the water supply network is damaged.

In a shocking report, the BBC records images that are chilling but also realistic as they convey the conditions that prevail in hospitals. Boneless children, without any hope to live, with their parents beside them to hope.

“My son was in excellent health before, he was normal,” says his mother Ghanima Jumaa. “But when he developed this malnutrition and dehydration, he became what you see now.”

Yunis Ghanima’s mother brought him to the hospital “There is no bottled water. Children walk a long distance – when they get water it reaches us contaminated,” says Ghanima.

Along the corridor of Nasser Hospital is five-year-old Tala Ibrahim Muhammad al-Jalat. She is almost awake, but not moving.
Forced to live in a tent, 5-year-old Tala and her family are also severely dehydrated and malnourished.
At her bedside, her father Ibrahim Muhmmad al-Jalat holds her hand. “The situation is getting worse. The temperature in our tent is unimaginable and the water we drink is definitely contaminated, because both young and old are getting sick.”

With their homes destroyed, hundreds of thousands of Gazans are now displaced, living in makeshift camps with little protection from the scorching sun.

Securing water, whether clean or not, is a daily struggle. Long lines form at distribution centers.
With the sewage system damaged and few toilets available, the water that exists is easily contaminated.

A cry of despair from the doctors

“It’s no secret that the biggest cause of intestinal infections happening right now in the Gaza Strip is the contamination of the water supplied to these children,” says Dr. Ahmed al-Fari, head of children’s wards at Nasser Hospital.

“The first problem is intestinal infections with vomiting and diarrhea that causes dehydration,” he says.
“The second problem is hepatitis C or A, which are no less dangerous than intestinal infections, if not more so.”

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says 67% of Gaza’s water and sanitation system has now been destroyed.

“We need a huge international effort to restore the water and sewage networks,” says Salaam Sharab, who is a water engineer in the Khan Younis municipality.
“We in Khan Younis have lost between 170 and 200 kilometers of pipes, which have been completely destroyed, along with wells and water tanks.”

The Israeli military says it allows about 200 trucks carrying humanitarian aid to enter the strip through the Kerem Shalom crossing each day.

Aid agencies say ongoing fighting, especially in the area around Rafah in southern Gaza, means it is too dangerous for them to operate.
They also say that what is allowed is a drop in the ocean.

The growing desperation of Gazans to take food and water means there is also a risk of looting with reports of aid trucks looted by gunmen as well as ordinary civilians.
But the International Criminal Court prosecutor accused Israel of using hunger as a weapon of war and sought arrest warrants for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as well as Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
The Israeli government reacted angrily to this move.
He insists that claims by humanitarian agencies that there is already widespread famine in Gaza are exaggerated and says that it is Hamas that started the war, bringing suffering and misery to Palestinians.
The United Nations has warned that more than a million Gazans face the highest level of hunger by mid-July.
Israeli ministers deny that there is a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, but images of parents holding their children in their arms, slowly dying, do not feel that way.