A 20-year-old Palestinian woman with severe physical deterioration has died after being transferred to Italy for medical treatment, according to a hospital statement on Saturday.
Marah Abu Zuhri was removed from the Gaza Strip as part of a humanitarian mission and arrived in Pisa University Hospital late Wednesday. She had entered a respiratory crisis and subsequently gone into cardiac arrest, hospital staff said.
The woman’s death comes after a wave of food shortages and malnutrition in Gaza, with nearly 12,000 children under 5 found to have acute malnutrition in July, including over 2,500 with severe malnutrition.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denied claims of starvation in Gaza, saying “there is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza.” However, US President Donald Trump expressed skepticism after seeing images of emaciated people, noting that the amount of food entering Gaza has tripled over two weeks.
Source: https://apnews.com/article/italy-gaza-hospital-evacuation-bae038c4409b120348ac6363a4150af2