Was kommt nach dem Hunger in Gaza?

Now that a ceasefire is in place, aid is trickling in to Gaza. There is reason to hope that, for all the lasting destruction there, the immediate crisis of hunger will come to an end. “It’s tempting to think about hunger as a temporary state, something that exists only until food can be accessed again,” Clayton Dalton writes. Some studies, however, suggest that its effects can be permanent. For the severely malnourished, simply starting to eat normal meals again can cause sickness—even death—in a phenomenon known as refeeding syndrome. Experts on malnutrition discuss what happens to the body during starvation, drawing on Jewish doctors who perished in the Holocaust and researchers of a Dutch famine. “We are losing the next generation,“ an aid coördinator in Gaza said. „They will suffer for all their lives from this.“

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