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💢🇵🇸 Another Palestinian Child Dies Due to Israel’s Deliberately Imposed Hunger Crisis in Gaza Palestinian girl Maha Bashir has died from severe malnutrition on Tuesday, Palestinian media report, as Israel continues to deliberately restrict food and other necessities entering Gaza. The United States and President Trump, who leads the Board of Peace, has enabled the deprivation with weapons, funding, and diplomatic protection as Israel manufactures a starvation crisis by blocking sufficient food trucks from entering Gaza. Journalist Osama al-Kahlout documented a loved one cradling Maha’s almost weightless body. Starvation had consumed nearly all the flesh from her frame. Her ribs, spine and pelvis pushed sharply through her skin, while her arms and legs had wasted to little more than bone. Since the ceasefire began, Israel has allowed in only 35.3% of the minimum agreed aid deliveries, averaging 211.8 trucks daily against the required 600, a document shared by Palestinian authorities with mediators on Sunday shows. Palestinian negotiators said Israel also supplies mediators with misleading figures while refusing independent international monitoring of humanitarian aid. Famine was confirmed in Gaza City in August 2025, and while the hunger crisis has eased from last year, it remains severe. The IPC warns that 74,200 children could require treatment for acute malnutrition through April 2027, including more than 11,400 severe cases. Without sustained aid, nearly 1.9 million Palestinians could face acute food insecurity by December. Gaza’s Health Ministry had already recorded at least 420 hunger-related deaths, including 145 children, since October 2023.