Emad Abu Dahrooj, 14, weighs just 24 kilograms.
He is both severely malnourished and dehydrated. He is also a kidney patient in need of regular dialysis.
This makes him particularly vulnerable. Israel continues to prevent the delivery to Gaza of most humanitarian aid, food, water and medical supplies, and famine stalks the entire coastal territory, especially the north, where Israel has all but cut off assistance entirely as part of its campaign of extermination.
To make matters worse, there are just 17 partially functioning hospitals left operating in Gaza, one of which – the al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah – is where Emad goes for his dialysis treatment.
“I bring him every other day to the hospital to undergo dialysis,” said his father Nidal Abu Dahrooj. “He is really collapsing. He always isolates himself because he refuses to be seen this way.”…..more
