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Wednesday briefing: Facing the reality of Gaza’s ‘unfolding’ famine
ByAamna Mohdin July 30, 2025

In today’s newsletter: As Keir Starmer announces caveated plans to recognise the Palestinian state, and UN-backed experts say the ‘worst-case scenario’ is under way, is opening the borders to allow aid in the only hope?Good morning. Humanitarians are r…

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MSF reports tripling of severe malnutrition in under-5s at Gaza City clinic
ByMalak A Tantesh in Gaza and William Christou in Jerusalem July 25, 2025

Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled since May and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’• Middle East crisis – live updatesRates of severe malnutrition among children aged under five at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Ga…

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Sudan’s children face growing threat of deadly infectious diseases as vaccination rates halve
ByKat Lay, Global health correspondent July 17, 2025

The country, beset by war, has the world’s lowest rates of vaccination, says the World Health Organization, as global immunisation drive also stallsChildren in Sudan, caught up in what aid organisations have called the world’s largest humanitarian cris…

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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
ByWilliam Christou in Amman and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza July 5, 2025

Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babiesDoctors in Gaza have warned that hundreds of babies are at risk of death amid a critical shortage of baby milk, as I…

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‘They’re skin and bones’: doctors in Gaza warn babies at risk of death from lack of formula
ByWilliam Christou in Amman and Malak A Tantesh in Gaza July 5, 2025

Doctors say Israel is blocking deliveries of formula urgently needed as mothers are either dead or too malnourished to feed their babiesDoctors in Gaza have warned that hundreds of babies are at risk of death amid a critical shortage of baby milk, as I…

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