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A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster.As the ongoing conflict in the Gaza Strip enters its 20th week, food and safe water have become incredibly scarce and diseases are rife, compromising women and children’s nutrition and immunity and resulting in a surge of acute malnutrition.The report “Nutrition Vulnerability and Situation Analysis - Gaza” – finds that the situation is particularly extreme in the North...

UNICEF says the scarcity of food is compromising women's and children’s nutrition and immunity, resulting in a surge of acute malnutrition.

A steep rise in malnutrition among children and pregnant and breastfeeding women in the Gaza strip poses grave threats to their health, according to a comprehensive new analysis released by the Global Nutrition Cluster.

The situation is especially serious in the north, where one in six children under the age of two is acutely malnourished

Despite adequate food production in the country, about 190 million Indians remain undernourished, as per a report on ‘Food Waste in India’