Nearly 15,000 children in Gaza have been diagnosed with acute malnutrition since early this year, according to the United Nations. The UN humanitarian office OCHA has said that 239,580 children were checked since mid-January, leading to 14,750 diagnoses of malnutrition affecting children aged between six months to just under five years, including 3,288 cases of severe acute malnutrition. “So far, we have counted nearly 5,000 children. And symptoms of malnutrition apply in one-third of cases,” said Kamal Adwan Hospital director Hossam Abu Safiya. He added that a quarter of these cases “were not…