“There’s so much traumatic injury, like blast wounds and broken bones,” says Fitzpatrick, an assistant professor at the Friedman School of Nutrition at Tufts University. “But they’re not healing, because people don’t have the nutrients to build the collagen necessary to close them. The extent of this crisis has been conveyed to the watching world through photos of emaciated babies and infants with thinning hair. “There’s different types of acute malnutrition,” says Fitzpatrick. “There’s the getting thin type and there’s the kwashiorkor, and we see both in Gaza.