Yahia al-Najjar, 4 months old, died of severe malnutrition

Yahia died at the American Hospital in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza on Tuesday, July 22. His mother successfully nursed her previous three children but she could not produce milk for Yahia. She was subsisting on one meal of lentils or rice per day. The family could not afford baby formula.

More information: New York Times

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