Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – In a corridor inside Nasser Hospital, Iman Abu Jame sits beside her six-year-old son, Yasser, as she watches his frail body, exhausted by illness, and tries to make sense of what has happened to him.Yasser’s skin is covered in angry rashes and burn-like wounds that doctors cannot explain. His body is frail from hunger.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of listFor the 32-year-old Iman, Yasser’s illness cannot be separated from the suffering caused by more than two and a half years of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.Their family lives in a cramped tent in al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, an area full of fellow displaced people, which Iman describes as catastrophic.The heat is suffocating. Garbage piles up around the tents. Contaminated water is all many families can access. Insects and rodents crawl through overcrowded shelters where thousands of displaced people are packed together with no sanitation and little food.Israel places severe restrictions on the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza despite an October ceasefire that was supposed to see the amount of aid entering the Palestinian enclave ramp up.Before the war, Yasser was healthy, Iman says. Then came the hunger.Months of severe food shortages and soaring prices left the family unable to afford even basic meals. Malnutrition weakened his body first. Then came the infections.“I have never seen infections like these in my life,” Iman tells Al Jazeera. “But there are children all around us in …
