UN retracts aid chief's claim that 14,000 Gazan babies will die in 48 hours without aid

The UN later cited a report that said there could be 14,100 cases of malnutrition in children in Gaza between April 2025 and March 2026, a timeframe of one year not two days.

Palestinian children react near the site of an Israeli strike on a house, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip earlier this year..

(photo credit: MOHAMMED SALEM/REUTERS)

ByMATHILDA HELLER

MAY 21, 2025 13:45

Updated: MAY 22, 2025 13:06

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