Human Rights Watch: 13,000 Afghan infants have died from malnutrition in the past three months

Human Rights Watch says about 13,000 infants have died of malnutrition and hunger-related illnesses in Afghanistan in the past three months.

According to Human Rights Watch, about 95 percent of Afghanistan’s population is currently malnourished and 3.5 million children in the country need nutritional support.

“Children in different provinces are now just skin on their bones, and I’m afraid the situation will get worse,” the group was quoted as saying in a report quoted by the head of an international humanitarian organization in Afghanistan.

Emphasizing that Afghanistan urgently needs an efficient banking system to deal with the crisis, Human Rights Watch added that most Afghan banks are currently struggling, although in recent weeks, the United States and the World Bank Billions of dollars in aid have been released, but restrictions on the Central Bank of Afghanistan still make large transactions or withdrawals impossible.

According to the organization, international banks are still cautious about previous sanctions against the Taliban, and Afghan banks have restricted cash withdrawals due to currency shortages, making it difficult to transfer international aid to Afghanistan.