Medics say four Gaza children starve to death in hunger crisis
That's according to local health officials, who said malnutrition and starvation are now killing Palestinians faster than at any point in the 21-month war.
The infant died at a hospital ward in northern Gaza, the health officials said, naming him as Yousef al-Safadi.
The teenager, 13-year-old Abdulhamid al-Ghalban, died in a hospital in the southern city of Khan Younis.
The other two were not named.
Palestinian health officials say at least 101 people have died of hunger during the conflict, including 80 children, with most of them in recent weeks.
In Gaza City, Mohammed Jundia said he hadn't eaten in five days.
An injury prevents him from getting to aid sites. Someone pitied him and gave him a bag of flour.
He said, "We don't have food available, we don't have anything to drink, nothing is available. The famine is killing people. The distance we walk is too far away.'
Israel controls all aid supplies into the war-ravaged enclave, where most of the population has been displaced multiple times and faces acute shortages of basic necessities.
"Gaza has become hell on earth, and no place is safe."
The head of the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency said on Tuesday that its staff, as well as doctors and humanitarian workers, were fainting on duty in Gaza due to hunger and exhaustion.
"Doctors, nurses, journalists, humanitarians, among them UNRWA staff, are hungry."
Israel's military said that it "views the transfer of humanitarian aid into Gaza as a matter of utmost importance", and works to facilitate its entry in coordination with the international community.
It has denied accusations it is preventing aid from reaching Gaza and has accused Palestinian militant group Hamas of stealing food, an allegation Hamas denies.
Israeli military statistics showed on Tuesday that an average of 146 trucks of aid per day had entered Gaza over the course of the war.
The United States has said a minimum of 600 trucks per day are needed to feed Gaza's population.
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