Child malnutrition in Gaza surpasses famine thresholds: UN official

One in three people in Gaza are going days without food and child malnutrition has surpassed famine thresholds, a top UN official said, warning of a deepening humanitarian catastrophe. Ted Chaiban, deputy executive director of the UN children fund’s Unicef, told reporters that the rate of global acute malnutrition in Gaza now exceeds 16.5 per cent, placing more than 320,000 young children at risk. “I met acutely malnourished infants whose bodies were little more than skin and bone,” Mr Chaiban said.