The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born. The body of 5-month-old Zainab Abu Halib arrived at a hospital in southern Gaza on Friday and her family buried her on Saturday.

By SAMY MAGDY and MARIAM DAGGA Updated 9:15 PM EDT, July 26, 2025

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A mother pressed a final kiss to what remained of her 5-month-old daughter and wept. Esraa Abu Halib’s baby now weighed less than when she was born.

On a sunny street in shattered Gaza, the bundle containing Zainab Abu Halib represented the latest death from starvation after 21 months of war and Israeli restrictions on aid.

The baby was brought to the pediatric department of Nasser Hospital on Friday. She was already dead. A worker at the morgue carefully removed her Mickey Mouse-printed shirt, pulling it over her sunken, open eyes. He pulled up the hems of her pants to show her knobby knees. His thumb was wider than her ankle. He could count the bones of her chest

  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 hours ago

    I’ve never donated, as this is Israel, and they’re killing people who try to get aid in. I’m pretty sure the money goes nowhere.

    • helmet91@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 hours ago

      The money on the fundraiser link is going to a family who needs it. In the end I’m pretty sure too, it will go to Israel, which is very sad, but at the moment there’s no other way to save lives.

      1. First the money goes to the person who created the fundraiser (honestly, I don’t know who he is; I do know that one of their siblings has been living in Spain and he’s also helping obviously, but I haven’t asked about the one in Canada. He might be a friend or family, I don’t know).
      2. The family in Gaza has direct access to the money from the fundraiser
      3. They have to go to some merchants, where they transfer the money online and receive cash in exchange, and during this process they incur an outrageous 40% or higher surcharge.
      4. Using the cash they can buy food.

      So yes, in one way or another, in the end the money will end up in Israel, which is sad, but again, at the moment there is no other way to help them survive the famine.

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlEnglish
      3·
      7 hours ago

      The donations do go to people in Gaza but they use the money to buy food from the Abu Shabab ISISrael gang and the likes.

      It does nothing to solve the issue. We need to change public opinion first.