In Gaza: Baby Formula Blocked as Death Creeps into Neonatal Wards

Gaza / PNN /

“I carried a small can of baby formula in my bag. It wasn’t just powdered milk — it was a lifeline for a dying infant. I was about to enter Gaza, but Israel blocked me. They said the milk was ‘not authorised.’”

With these words, Dr Thaer Ahmad, a Palestinian physician, recounts one of the starkest humanitarian paradoxes of our time: baby formula — a simple, everyday item — stranded at a military checkpoint, waiting for permission.

This week, two…