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July 25, 2025 
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 | By Krista Mahr Senior Editor, International Opinion |
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On Wednesday, the head of the World Health Organization warned that Gazans are facing a man-made, “mass starvation,” after more than 100 aid groups called on Israel to restore the full flow of food and aid into the territory.
Mohammed Mansour has been watching the spiraling hunger crisis in Gaza firsthand, both as a senior nutrition manager for the International Rescue Committee and a father of two young children.
In his work helping malnourished children and their families across Gaza, he has seen more and more desperate parents arriving at I.R.C.’s mobile clinics.
“Mothers arrive at our clinics exhausted, often after walking for hours carrying malnourished babies in their arms,” he writes in a guest essay. “They ask, ‘Will my child survive?’ or ‘Do you have any milk or food?’”
Mansour can’t always answer these questions, he writes, just like he can’t answer his own daughter when she asks him when she will be able to go back to school.
He writes that he wants his daughters and all the children he treats to grow up in a place “where textbooks replace rubble, where sleep comes easily without fear of what the night might bring and where they go to bed with full bellies — not from scraps, but from real, nourishing food.”
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