Toddler Rescued from Gaza Malnutrition Recovers in Italian Hospital

Shamm's Recovery in Italy

• 👶 Shamm Qudeih, a two-year-old girl from Gaza, has made significant progress after arriving in Italy with severe malnutrition.
• 📈 She has celebrated her second birthday and gained over a kilogram since her arrival, thanks to a specialized diet including a special porridge.
• 🩺 Doctors are carefully managing her growth, ensuring a gradual increase in weight to avoid complications, given her underlying genetic metabolic disease.

Conditions in Gaza

• 💔 Weeks prior to her evacuation, Shamm was critically ill, described as "all skin and bones," while in a hospital in southern Gaza.
• 🏥 Her condition was exacerbated by a lack of food, treatment, and adequate resources in her living environment.
• 🚫 The Israeli foreign ministry's actions led to a total blockade, during which no food or medicines entered the strip for months.
• ⚠️ Israel denies causing starvation in Gaza, despite contrary accounts from witnesses, UN agencies, and experts, stating that aid was permitted before and after the blockade.