With Rafah border crossing closed, malnourished children in Gaza risk death
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![Ghanima Jumaa watches as her nine-year-old son Younis, who has quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy, lie in bed at Nasser Medical Complex in Gaza. Younis was supposed to leave the Gaza Strip to be treated in Turkey for malnutrition, but those plans dissipated when the Rafah border crossing to Egypt was closed last month. A woman in black sits on a black chair. Behind her is an emaciated child lying in bed. They are in a hospital.](https://i.cbc.ca/1.7240659.1718893552!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/16x9_620/ghanima-and-younis-jumaa.jpeg)
Aid organizations say sick, malnourished children are facing death in Gaza, as they can’t cross the Rafah border to find proper medical treatment amid the Palestinian territory's collapsing medical system, struggling with a critical lack of supplies after over eight months of the Israel-Hamas war.