At least 15 Palestinians, including four children, have starved to death in a single day in the besieged Gaza Strip, bringing the total death toll from malnutrition since Israel's war began to 101, reports Al Jazeera.
The announcement on Tuesday came as Israeli forces continued to pound Gaza, killing at least 81 people, and the United Nations described the situation in the enclave as a "horror show with a level of death and destruction without parallel in recent times".
The overall toll of 101 included 80 children, and most of the deaths have come in the last few weeks.
Among the children who died on Tuesday were six-week-old Yousef al-Safadi, who passed away at a hospital in northern Gaza City, and 13-year-old Abdulhamid al-Ghalban, who died in another medical facility in southern Khan Younis, according to doctors.
Yousef's uncle, Adham al-Safadi, told the Reuters news agency that the infant's mother had not been able to breastfeed because she was not eating, and the family could not find baby formula to feed him.
"You can't get milk anywhere, and if you do find any, it's $100 for a tub," al-Safadi told Reuters.
"The mother can't breastfeed. There's no food or drinks, so there is no breastmilk. The baby died of malnutrition."
The starvation crisis comes amid a nearly five-month blockade by Israel on food, fuel, water and other humanitarian supplies entering the Gaza Strip.
Israel cut off all goods from entering the territory in March, but has allowed in a trickle of aid starting in May, mostly through the controversial United States-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).
According to the UN, Israeli forces have killed more than 1,000 Palestinians seeking food aid since the GHF began its operations, most of them near the group's distribution points.
At least 81 Palestinians were killed on Tuesday, including at least 31 aid seekers, according to medics in Gaza.
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