{"id":205,"date":"2025-12-11T00:09:37","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/?p=205"},"modified":"2025-12-11T00:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T00:09:37","slug":"maternal-malnutrition-has-devastated-gaza-babies-according-to-the-united-nations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/?p=205","title":{"rendered":"Maternal malnutrition has devastated Gaza babies, according to the United Nations."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gaza-child-r1759677185-0-640x480-1.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-206\" style=\"width:749px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gaza-child-r1759677185-0-640x480-1.webp 640w, https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/gaza-child-r1759677185-0-640x480-1-300x225.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A displaced Palestinian youngster who fled Gaza City due to an Israeli military offensive stands by a barrier while resting on the roadside in the central Gaza Strip on October 5, 2025. Photo: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>GENEVA:<\/strong> Malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women in the Gaza Strip is having a &#8220;devastating domino effect&#8221; on thousands of newborns, the UN said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNICEF, the UN children&#8217;s agency, reported an alarming increase in the number of babies born weighing less than 2.5 kilogrammes (5.5 pounds) in the Palestinian Territories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UNICEF spokesperson Tess Ingram told a news briefing in Geneva that &#8220;malnourished mothers&#8221; give birth to underweight or early kids, who either &#8220;die\u2026 or survive, only to face malnutrition themselves or potential lifelong medical complications,&#8221; speaking from central Gaza.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also stated that infants with low birth weight were around 20 times more likely to die than infants with normal weight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the October 7 Hamas attack in Israel and the subsequent Israeli offensive in Gaza, 5% of newborns born in Gaza were underweight, an average of 250 babies each month, according to numbers from the Hamas-run territory&#8217;s health ministry, which the UN regards as reliable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite fewer births in the first half of 2025, 10% of babies were born underweight &#8211; approximately 300 babies each month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And from July to September, three months before the fragile ceasefire on October 10, the figure jumped to 460 babies every month, according to Ingram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Low birth weight is generally caused by poor maternal nutrition, increased maternal stress, and limited antenatal care,&#8221; she told me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In Gaza, we witness all three, and the response is not moving fast enough nor at the scale required.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GENEVA: Malnutrition among pregnant and lactating women in the Gaza Strip is having a &#8220;devastating domino effect&#8221; on thousands of newborns, the UN said on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[47,181,38,31,32,40,46],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","category-world","tag-attack","tag-babies","tag-gaza","tag-latest-news","tag-latest-update","tag-palestine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":207,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thriveimmunityus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}