<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>A 20-year old Palestinian woman described as being in a "state of severe physical deterioration" has died after being transferred to Italy for treatment, the hospital said Saturday.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The patient was admitted to Pisa University Hospital late Wednesday and died on Friday. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She was removed from the Gaza Strip as part of a humanitarian mission and arrived with a "with a very complex, compromised clinical picture," according to the hospital.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>She died after entering a respiratory crisis and subsequently going into cardiac arrest, it said in a statement.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/new-zealand-mother-detained-by-ice-after-canada-trip-released/a2cbce8d-7e5f-4f38-899c-5759f76e34e9"><strong><span>NZ mother and son held in US immigration custody for weeks after paperwork mistake</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Hospital staff had performed tests and started supportive therapy before she died, the statement said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The woman, named by Italian media as Marah Abu Zuhri, had arrived in Italy with her mother.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/world/woman-from-gaza-evacuated-to-italy-in-a-state-of-severe-physical-deterioration-dies-in-hospital/8100460c-6e59-40cd-a81d-391f8e942900" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said almost 120 Palestinians — 31 patients and their families — had been flown to Rome, Milan and Pisa on three planes.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>In a post on X, Tajani said that it was the 14th medical evacuation of Palestinians that Italy had conducted since January 2024, and the largest.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The hospital did not specify whether the woman had suffered from malnutrition, but said that she had arrived in a "state of severe physical deterioration."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Eugenio Giani, leader of the Tuscan region, expressed his condolences Saturday for the woman's death.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Earlier in the week, United Nations spokesman Stephane Dujarric said that starvation and malnutrition in Gaza were at their highest levels since the Israel-Hamas war began.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The UN says nearly 12,000 children under 5 were found to have acute malnutrition in July — including more than 2500 with severe malnutrition, the most dangerous level. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The World Health Organization says the numbers are likely an undercount.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE: </span></strong><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/world/trump-reverses-on-the-need-for-a-ceasefire-before-a-potential-peace-deal-ending-the-war-in-ukraine/4e98a7f2-042f-4699-9840-4ecdba83aaab" rel="" target="" title=""><strong><span>Trump's 'abrupt' ceasefire deal reversal after Putin talks</span></strong></a><span></span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said last month no one in Gaza is starving. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"There is no policy of starvation in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza," he said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>US President Donald Trump responded to Netanyahu's claim by noting the images emerging of emaciated people.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span> "I don't know," Trump said when asked if he agreed with the Israeli leader's comment. </span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"I mean, based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Over the past two weeks, Israel has allowed around triple the amount of food into Gaza than what had been entering since late May.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>That was after two and a half months when Israel barred all food, medicine and other supplies, saying it was to pressure Hamas to release hostages taken during its October 2023 attack that launched the war.</span></div></div>