UN official: Israel is waging a starvation war on Gaza and must be punished. In the Gaza Strip, 16 children died of hunger in one day, as a result of dehydration and lack of medicine, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
The entire population of the Strip - numbering 2.4 million - faces “crisis or worse” levels of food insecurity. 576,000 people, a quarter of Gaza Strip's population, face catastrophic levels ofFood shortages. One in every 6 children under the age of two suffers from acute malnutrition in northern Gaza.