{"id":577121,"date":"2026-08-07T02:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577121\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T02:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T02:14:18","slug":"new-un-led-survey-shows-low-levels-of-malnutrition-in-children-from-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/577121\/","title":{"rendered":"New UN-led survey shows low levels of malnutrition in children from Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

A newly published UNICEF-led survey proves that the “false narrative against Israel,” of there being a famine in the Gaza Strip, is falling apart, Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

“Once again, facts prevail over fiction,” Danon said. “UN bodies are acknowledging that the false narrative against Israel is falling apart.”<\/p>\n

“Israel is not starving children. Israel is fighting Hamas terrorism, while Hamas uses civilians in Gaza as human shields. Those who rushed to accuse Israel must now be held accountable for spreading lies.”<\/p>\n

The nutrition survey, which was coordinated by the UNICEF, showed that children in Gaza have low levels of acute malnutrition.<\/p>\n

Using internationally recognized World Health Organization<\/a> (WHO) methodology, researchers measured children’s weight, height, and mid-upper-arm circumference to assess acute malnutrition using the Weight-for-Height Z-score (WHZ).<\/p>\n

\"PalestinianPalestinian boys sit amid the debris of destroyed buildings following an Israeli strike at the Al-Jalaa street in Gaza City on July 24, 2026. (credit: Omar AL-QATTAA \/ AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

According to the results of the survey, acute malnutrition rates across Gaza ranged between 0.2% and 0.8%.<\/p>\n

These are levels comparable to or below those recorded in Gaza prior to the Israel-Hamas War, and are significantly lower than those reported in neighboring countries, including Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.<\/p>\n

“In other words,” the Foreign Ministry, in its own statement to X\/Twitter, added, “There is no famine in Gaza<\/a>.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Malnutrition is not only significantly below the critical values \u2013 it is exceptionally low in regional comparison. Anyone who is still open to arguments can look at the empirical data themselves.”<\/p>\n

Stunting, overweight, unhealthy diet<\/p>\n

The survey also presented several other concerns regarding children’s nutrition in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n

In the study, stunting is noted as a main child nutrition concern, affecting about one in eight children. This points to “longer-term nutritional stress and repeated deprivation beyond immediate wasting,” according to the survey.<\/p>\n

It added that overweight is also present across the Strip, and that the “coexistence of wasting, stunting and overweight
highlights the importance of diet quality, not only food quantity.”<\/p>\n

In Khan Younis and Rafah, the survey found that unhealthy food consumption reached a high of 78%, while in Gaza City and northern Gaza, some 64% do not eat fruit or vegetables.<\/p>\n

ICP: Nutrition in Gaza has improved since early 2026<\/p>\n

In a report released on July 23, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (ICP) said that since the Israel-Hamas<\/a> ceasefire in October 2025, “large-scale assistance has driven improvements in food security and nutrition conditions across the Gaza Strip,” but noted that “needs remain high.”<\/p>\n

ICP added that the nutrition situation in the Gaza Strip improved since early 2026, and classified the nutrition level at Phase One (less than five percent of children are acutely malnurished) of its Acute Malnutrition table between mid-April.<\/p>\n

It warned, however, that the level could drop to Phase Two (five to 9.9% percent of children are acutely malnurished) between July and December 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A newly published UNICEF-led survey proves that the “false narrative against Israel,” of there being a famine in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577122,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1089,11740,17338,453,50,69,51,42,61,43,40,38,41,39,23699,4497],"class_list":["post-577121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-children","tag-danny-danon","tag-famine","tag-food","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-strip","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-israel-hamas-war","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-unicef","tag-united-nations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=577121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=577121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=577121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=577121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}