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Agence France-Presse

A young Palestinian woman with severe wasting who was flown from Gaza to Italy this week for treatment has died, according to the hospital.
The 20-year-old, named by Italian media as Marah Abu Zuhri, arrived in Pisa on Thursday on an overnight Italian government humanitarian flight.
She had a “very complex clinical picture” and was “in a profound state of organic wasting”, the University Hospital of Pisa said in a statement on Saturday.
On Friday, after undergoing tests and starting treatment, she had a sudden respiratory crisis and cardiac arrest, and died.
The hospital did not elaborate on her condition, but Italian news agencies reported that she was suffering from severe malnutrition.

Humanitarian groups, UN agencies and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have warned of the risk of widespread famine in war-battered Gaza.
The young woman had come to Italy with her mother on one of three Italian air force flights that arrived this week with a total of 31 patients and their companions.
They all suffered from serious congenital diseases, wounds or amputations, the Italian foreign ministry said at the time.
So far, more than 180 children and young people from Gaza have been brought to Italy since the war began between Israel and Hamas.
Lacking basic necessities
The news comes as Israeli attacks killed at least 22 people, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency on Saturday.
Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal said conditions in the Zeitun neighbourhood in Gaza City were rapidly deteriorating, with residents having little to no access to food and water amid heavy Israeli bombardment.
He said that about 50,000 people were estimated to be in that area of Gaza City, “the majority of whom are without food or water” and lacking “the basic necessities of life”.
Media restrictions in Gaza and difficulties accessing swathes of the Palestinian territory mean that it is difficult to independently verify the death tolls and details provided by the civil defence agency, the Israeli military and other sources.
In recent days, Gaza City residents have spoken of more frequent air strikes targeting residential areas, including in Zeitun, while earlier this week, Hamas denounced “aggressive” Israeli ground incursions.

To Bassal, Israel was carrying out “ethnic cleansing” in Zeitun. Israeli officials have dismissed similar accusations before, and the military insists it abides by international law.
Earlier this month, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet approved plans to seize Gaza City, one of the most densely populated parts of the territory that has been devastated by more than 22 months of war.
On Friday, the Israeli military said its troops were operating in Zeitun.
Ghassan Kashko, 40, who shelters with his family at a school building in the neighbourhood, said: “We don’t know the taste of sleep.” He said air strikes and tank shelling were causing “explosions … that don’t stop”.
The Israeli plan to expand the war has sparked an international outcry as well as domestic opposition.


UN-backed experts have warned of widespread famine unfolding in the territory, where Israel has drastically curtailed the amount of humanitarian aid it allows in.
According to the civil defence agency, at least 13 of the Palestinians killed on Saturday were shot by troops as they were waiting to collect food aid near distribution sites in the north and in the south.
The war was triggered by Hamas’s October 2023 attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, according to on official figures.
Israel’s offensive has killed more than 61,000 Palestinians, according to figures from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza, which the United Nations considers reliable.


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The 20-year-old woman, who was reportedly severely malnourished, had a heart attack and died before she could be treated


The 20-year-old woman, who was reportedly severely malnourished, had a heart attack and died before she could be treated.


Palestinian evacuee’s death in Italy highlights Gaza’s starvation crisis

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}The 20-year-old woman, who was reportedly severely malnourished, had a heart attack and died before she could be treated

The 20-year-old woman, who was reportedly severely malnourished, had a heart attack and died before she could be treated