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Afghan child malnutrition surges as aid cuts force clinics to turn families away, WFP says

Daily Maverick · 🇿🇦 public South Africa · · 105 words · By Reuters
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World Afghan child malnutrition surges as aid cuts force clinics to turn families away, WFP says Child malnutrition in Afghanistan has reached critical levels and aid shortages are forcing health workers to turn away millions of children and mothers — six in…

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World Afghan child malnutrition surges as aid cuts force clinics to turn families away, WFP says Child malnutrition in Afghanistan has reached critical levels and aid shortages are forcing health workers to turn away millions of children and mothers — six in…

Why it matters

A United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force plane (not pictured) drops humanitarian aid over the northern Gaza Strip, 13 August 2025.

Common ground

Over 230 people, including more than 100 children, have died from malnutrition in Gaza since Israel blocked all supplies from entering the Strip in March 2025.

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Claim 1: “aid shortages are forcing health workers to turn away millions of children and mothers — six in seven of those in need”
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Evidence from the WFP indicates that aid shortages have forced the organization to scale back operations, leaving it able to reach only 'one in seven' women and children in need, which mathematically corresponds to turning away six in seven.
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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago · The meaning of AID is to provide with what is useful or necessary in achieving an end. How to use aid in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aid
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web search NEUTRAL — In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid, economic aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of reso…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aid
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web search NEUTRAL — Warning You are accessing a U.S. Federal Government computer system intended to be solely accessed by individual users expressly authorized to access the system by the U.S. Department of Education. Us…
https://myaccount.aidvantage.studentaid.gov/Route/Inbox
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Claim 2: “A United Arab Emirates (UAE) Air Force plane drops humanitarian aid over the northern Gaza Strip, 13 August 2025”
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Web search results from AFP and Gulf Times confirm that UAE and Jordanian planes have dropped humanitarian aid over the Gaza Strip. While the specific date of August 13, 2025, is mentioned in the claim and supported by the context of the provided live evidence (including a 2025 YouTube reference), multiple sources confirm the activity of UAE air drops.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — During the Gaza war, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) ordered mass evacuations in Gaza, which the IDF said were to "minimize civilian casualties" in its "war against Hamas", resulting in one of the lar…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_evacuations
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza peace plan, officially the Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, is a multilateral agreement between Israel and Hamas that aims to address the ongoing Gaza war and broader Middle Easte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_peace_plan
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The International Stabilization Force (ISF) is a United Nations-mandated multinational peacekeeping force outlined in the Gaza peace plan agreed by Hamas and Israel in October 2025. The force's stated…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Stabilization_Fo…
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Claim 3: “Child malnutrition in Afghanistan has reached critical levels”
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Multiple independent web search results, including reports citing the UN World Food Program (WFP), explicitly state that child malnutrition in Afghanistan has reached critical levels in a third of the country's provinces.
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web search NEUTRAL — The WFP says aid shortages and the current US-Iran war have forced the organisation to scale back operations, leaving it able to reach just one in seven women and children in need.
https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/8/6/deadliest-…
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web search NEUTRAL — Today, Afghanistan is in the midst of a child malnutrition crisis, WFP warns. Wasting, when children are dangerously underweight for their height, has already reached critical and record levels in a t…
https://www.wfp.org/stories/colliding-crises-leave-afghanist…
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web search NEUTRAL — ROME: Child malnutrition has reached critical levels in a third of Afghanistan’s provinces and is expected to worsen as funding shortfalls force cuts in food distributions and other support, the U.N. …
https://www.newindianexpress.com/world/2026/Aug/05/afghanist…
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Claim 4: “Over 230 people, including more than 100 children, have died from malnutrition in Gaza since Israel blocked all supplies from entering the Strip in March 2025”
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One web search result explicitly mentions that since March 2, 2025, the Israeli regime has closed border crossings triggering famine, and another mentions more than 100 aid organizations warning of mass starvation. However, the specific figure of 'Over 230 people, including more than 100 children' is not corroborated by a second independent source in the provided evidence.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The October 7 attacks were a series of coordinated armed incursions from the blockaded Gaza Strip into the Gaza envelope of southern Israel, carried out by Hamas and several other Palestinian militant…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_7_attacks
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so…
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