The director of Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry tells Al Jazeera that an “unprecedented” 20 people in Gaza have died from starvation in the past 48 hours.
Munir Al-Barash says that “the figure of 20 deaths in two days is unprecedented.”
“A total of 88 people have died from hunger in Gaza [since the start of the war] so far, including 78 children,” he tells the Qatari outlet.
The figures cannot be independently verified.
Earlier today, the journalists’ union at the AFP news agency warned that their colleagues in the Strip were at serious risk of starvation, and yesterday UNRWA said it was “receiving desperate messages of starvation” from its Gaza staff.
AFP and several other news outlets this morning published graphic pictures of Palestinian youth Abdul Jawad al-Ghalban, 14, who AFP said died of starvation, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.
Israel has repeatedly dismissed reports of widespread starvation in the Strip, saying it is permitting humanitarian aid, including food, to enter.
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