MADRIDA Following her relocation to Italy for treatment, a 20-year-old Palestinian woman who was characterized as being in a state of extreme physical deterioration passed away, the hospital announced on Saturday.
The patient passed away on Friday after being admitted to Pisa University Hospital late on Wednesday. According to the hospital, she arrived with a highly complicated, compromised clinical picture after being taken out of the Gaza Strip as part of a humanitarian operation.
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According to the statement, she passed away after experiencing a respiratory crisis and then going into cardiac arrest.
According to the statement, before she passed away, hospital personnel had conducted tests and initiated supportive therapy.
The woman and her mother had traveled to Italy, and the Italian media referred to her as Marah Abu Zuhri.
According to Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, three flights have transported around 120 Palestinians, 31 patients, and their families to Rome, Milan, and Pisa.
It was the greatest medical evacuation of Palestinians Italy has carried out since January 2024, according to a post on X by Tajani.
The hospital stated that the woman had arrived in a state of serious physical deterioration but did not clarify whether she had experienced malnutrition.
The Tuscan region’s leader, Eugenio Giani, offered his sympathies for the woman’s passing on Saturday.
According to Stephane Dujarric, a spokesman for the United Nations, famine and malnutrition in Gaza are at their highest levels since the start of the Israel-Hamas conflict.
Nearly 12,000 children under the age of five were diagnosed with acute malnutrition in July, including over 2,500 with severe malnutrition, the most hazardous kind, according to the U.N. According to the World Health Organization, the figures are probably underestimated.
Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, claimed last month that there was no starvation in Gaza. He declared, “There is no starvation in Gaza, and there is no policy of starvation in Gaza.”
In response to Netanyahu’s assertion, U.S. President Donald Trump pointed out the pictures of malnourished individuals that surfaced. When asked if he agreed with the Israeli leader’s remark, Trump responded, “I don’t know.” Based on what I’ve seen on TV, I wouldn’t say so much because those kids appear to be quite hungry.
Israel has permitted about three times as much food to enter Gaza in the last two weeks as it had been allowing since late May.
That came two and a half months after Israel banned all food, medical, and other supplies, claiming that this was done to put pressure on Hamas to free hostages abducted during the war-starting October 2023 attack.
