A recent commentary in The Lancet shines a light on the crisis of child malnutrition in Gaza. The commentary is co-authored by Dr. Paul Wise, MD, MPH, a global health core leader at the Stanford Center for Innovation in Global Health and a pediatrician working to protect the health and wellbeing of vulnerable children worldwide.

The Oct. 8 commentary accompanies a new study led by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which “reinforces the confirmation by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) of famine in Gaza City and adds the clearest evidence yet of how child malnutrition has evolved during the war, in line with restrictions on humanitarian aid,” according to the UNRWA.

“It is now well established that the children of Gaza are starving and require immediate and sustained humanitarian assistance,” write the authors of the commentary.

Read Full Commentary in The Lancet