Amaal al-Bayouk, 7, her weight dropped from nearly 50 pounds to 22

Amaal al-Bayouk, 7, used to weigh just under 50 pounds, her mother, Asmaa, said. But the war displaced her family at least five times, and Asmaa couldn’t find nutritious food for her daughter. By early July, her weight had slipped to just 22 pounds. Photos her mother shared with The Washington Post showed the skin on her chest stretched taut over her ribs, and her arms and legs barely more than bone.

Amaal spent weeks in Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis last month and the hospital was able to help regain some weight. But since her release, she has struggled to digest whatever food her mother is able to procure, Asmaa said Friday. Doctors told the mother “they no longer can help and have no treatment,” she said. “Sometimes I hear her praying to God: ‘Please, God, don’t let me die until I eat chicken and fish.’”

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