Gaza – “The World abandoned Jana”: I was killed due to malnutrition

Ingram met the girl Jana in Gaza in 2024 when she was treated with malnutrition, and after her health improved, she suffered malnutrition again to return to treatment, but she was eventually killed on September 17, in light of the continued Israeli restrictions to enter humanitarian aid.

Ingram remembers when UNICEF Jana postponed treatment in southern Gaza for more than a year: “I remember how I grabbed her meager hand and helped her go up to the ambulance.”

When Jana’s condition improved the first time, she was discharged from the hospital and returned with her mother to northern Gaza early this year during the ceasefire, to be reunited with their family.

With the resumption of the ban on the entry of aid, and the spread of hunger, Gori (two years old), the sister of Jana, died on August 20. At that time, Ingram warned of the deterioration of the health status of Jana, which was barely clinging to life in a hospital in Gaza City, receiving a treatment for malnutrition.

Ingram said that the devastating health system in Gaza was unable to provide the care that Jana was needing, and added: “Its only hope was the medical evacuation outside the Gaza Strip, but this also failed it. No country has advanced or was able to remove Jana from Gaza.”

The Ministry of Health in Gaza states that 151 children were killed due to the sharp malnutrition in Gaza since the beginning of the war, the majority of whom have died during the current year.

100 people were killed daily

It is reported that 100 people were killed daily – on average – in Gaza due to the Israeli military operation or the shooting at the food distribution points of the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation”, according to Philip Lazarini, Commissioner -General of UNRWA.

Lazarini said, on X, that other people in Gaza are starving or due to the lack of medical care. He pointed out that the increase in the number of deaths nourishes an increasing case of indifference.

He quoted the famous German writer and playwright Brecht, saying: “When the crimes begin to accumulate, they become invisible, and when the suffering becomes unbearable, the screams are no longer hearing.”

The Commissioner -General of the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees stressed (UNRWA) The need to continue to document current crimes, and to listen to suffering and deal with it. Renew the demand for a ceasefire now and that there be accountability for justice.