Three-month-old Eid Abu Jamaa never had a chance to grow. Born healthy, he wasted away in the suffocating grip of blockade and famine until his tiny body could no longer endure. His family searched desperately for medicine and infant formula, but hospitals without supplies and shops with empty shelves left them helpless. Fever turned to seizures, and in the end, doctors could do nothing but watch him slip away.

Eid’s story is not an isolated tragedy but part of a larger catastrophe engulfing Gaza’s children. Malnutrition is now widespread, with countless infants deprived of essential food. Families scramble for alternatives to formula, while hospitals, stripped of resources, cannot offer the care these children need. Every missed meal, every unavailable treatment, pushes more young lives to the brink.

Doctors warn that the blockade has created conditions in which children are dying silently from hunger and neglect, their deaths recorded only when it is too late. Reports indicate that more than half of Gaza’s children show signs of malnutrition, with infant mortality rising sharply. Behind each statistic lies a family mourning a life cut short by policies that turn food and medicine into weapons.