A child is screened for malnutrition in a camp in Gaza, where MedGlobal has nutrition outpatient clinics, October 2025. (Courtesy of MedGlobal)

Gaza's children are recovering from hunger. Doctors fear it won't last.

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A new study by the humanitarian medical organization MedGlobal offers unusually hopeful numbers showing dropping acute malnutrition among children under 5 in Gaza. But "a huge fragility" remains.

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Denver Archbishop James Golka and a group of U.S. bishops pray over President Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington in a video posted on X Oct. 22, 2026, by the administration's communications staff. (OSV News screenshot/@MargoMartin47 on X)

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