WHO: Malnutrition 'Particularly Extreme' in North Gaza

A Palestinian child is tended to while receiving treatment, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at Al-Awda health centre, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 4, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
A Palestinian child is tended to while receiving treatment, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at Al-Awda health centre, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 4, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
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WHO: Malnutrition 'Particularly Extreme' in North Gaza

A Palestinian child is tended to while receiving treatment, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at Al-Awda health centre, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 4, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem
A Palestinian child is tended to while receiving treatment, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at Al-Awda health centre, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip March 4, 2024. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

The World Health Organization said on Tuesday that malnutrition in northern Gaza was "particularly extreme."
"The situation is particularly extreme in northern Gaza," said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for Gaza and the West Bank.
He said that 1 in 6 children under two years of age were acutely malnourished in northern Gaza.
"This was in January. So, the situation is likely to be greater today," Peeperkorn added.

Gaza health authorities say 15 children have died of malnutrition or dehydration at one hospital in northern Gaza.

Nearly five months into Israel's air and ground assault on the Gaza Strip and resulting mass displacement, acute shortages of food have led to what the United Nations is describing as a nutrition crisis, part of a wider humanitarian catastrophe.



Report: Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to Visit Iran on Tuesday to Discuss Syria

A handout photo made available by the Russian State Duma Press Service shows Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivering his report “On the priorities of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation” during a plenary session of the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, in Moscow, Russia, 19 February 2025. (EPA/ Russian State Duma Press Service Handout)
A handout photo made available by the Russian State Duma Press Service shows Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivering his report “On the priorities of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation” during a plenary session of the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, in Moscow, Russia, 19 February 2025. (EPA/ Russian State Duma Press Service Handout)
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Report: Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov to Visit Iran on Tuesday to Discuss Syria

A handout photo made available by the Russian State Duma Press Service shows Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivering his report “On the priorities of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation” during a plenary session of the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, in Moscow, Russia, 19 February 2025. (EPA/ Russian State Duma Press Service Handout)
A handout photo made available by the Russian State Duma Press Service shows Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov delivering his report “On the priorities of the foreign policy of the Russian Federation” during a plenary session of the State Duma, the Lower House of the Russian Parliament, in Moscow, Russia, 19 February 2025. (EPA/ Russian State Duma Press Service Handout)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will visit Iran on Tuesday to discuss Syrian developments with his Iranian counterpart, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday.

Russia and Iran were the main allies of ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.