Gaza mother worries time running out for evacuation of malnourished daughter

GAZA CITY (Reuters) -Stroking the hair of her emaciated daughter on a hospital bed in Gaza City, Nasma Ayad fears time is running out for a medical evacuation of the malnourished eight-year-old to avoid the fate of her sister, who died last month.

“I feel I’m slowly losing my daughter, day after day – everything she’s suffering from is multiplying,” Ayad said.

With few medical supplies and limited food, treating malnourished Palestinian children with complicated conditions in war-shattered…