Die schwerwiegenden langfristigen Auswirkungen der Gazastreifen-Mangelernährungskrise

The moment Merry Fitzpatrick realized that Gaza’s malnutrition crisis had progressed to a newer and deadlier phase was when surgeons at the few hospitals still operational on the Strip reported that wounds were no longer closing.

“There’s so much traumatic injury, like blast wounds and broken bones,” says Fitzpatrick, an assistant professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University. “But they’re not healing, because people don’t have the nutrients to build the collagen necessary to close them. So wounds that are a month, even two months old, still look as fresh as if they had occurred in the last week.”

According to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza, malnutrition deaths in the territory since October 2023 have now reached 154, with 89 of the fatalities coming in children. The World Health Organization [reported this week](https://www.who.int/news/item/27-07-2025-malnutrition-rates-reach-alarming-levels-in-gaza–who-warns) that July witnessed a particular spike in deaths, with 63 malnutrition-related fatalities reported at health facilities, including 38 adults, one child over five, and 24 children under five. Most of these patients were declared dead on arrival.

Read the full story: [https://www.wired.com/story/how-malnutrition-affects-the-body-gaza-hunger-children-health/](https://www.wired.com/story/how-malnutrition-affects-the-body-gaza-hunger-children-health/)