Save the Children in a report stated that three out of every ten children—approximately 6.5 million children—in Afghanistan will face a hunger crisis this year.

The report further predicts that in 2024, nearly 2.9 million children under the age of five will suffer from acute malnutrition.

Floods, drought, and the return of Afghan refugees from Pakistan and Iran have been identified as key factors contributing to the rising food insecurity in Afghanistan.

Arshad Malik, country director for Save the Children in Afghanistan, said: "Save the Children has treated more than 7,000 children for severe or acute malnutrition so far this year. Those numbers are a sign of the massive need for continuing support for families as they experience shock after shock. Children are feeling the devastating impacts of 3 years of drought, high levels of unemployment and the return of more than 1.4 million Afghans from Pakistan and Iran."

At the same time, the World Food Programme has added that after reducing aid last year, the number of children suffering from malnutrition has increased, and now three million children in Afghanistan are malnourished.

WFP says it can only assist 1.6 million of them.

Mona Shaikh, the head of nutrition at World Food Programme in Afghanistan, said: "Last year, we were expecting around 800,000 women around the country who are pregnant and lactating and are also malnourished, however we exceeded that number that we saw at the clinics so we reached 1.3 million and this year we are expecting even higher number, unfortunately as for the children, 3 million children will be malnourished however we will be able to reach just about 1.6  of those.”

Masoma, who brought her child from Faryab to Kabul for treatment, told TOLOnews: "It has been a year. We took him to Mazar as well, but he did not get better. One week he was fine, the next week he was not."

Mohammad Arif Hassanzi, a doctor, said: "There are various factors that cause children to suffer from malnutrition, for example, the family's economic situation is one of the factors."

Previously, the Ministry of Public Health had reported that in the first three months of this year, they provided medical services to 210,000 children and 100,000 mothers suffering from malnutrition.