Medical sources announced on Saturday the death of a child due to starvation and dehydration in Gaza City, bringing the number of malnutrition victims in the Gaza Strip to approximately 53.

The same sources said that the child, Janan Saleh Al-Skafi, died in Al-Rantisi Hospital, west of Gaza City, due to malnutrition resulting from the famine in the Strip.

She added that approximately 60,000 children are suffering from malnutrition due to the occupation's tight blockade of the Gaza Strip, its closure of all crossings, and its prevention of the entry of essential supplies and humanitarian aid, including food, water, medicine, and even fuel, for approximately 64 days.

UNICEF warned that more than 96% of women and children in Gaza are unable to meet their basic food needs. A United Nations report indicated that 1.95 million Palestinians out of a population of 2.2 million are suffering from critical levels of food insecurity.

Since the first hours of the devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, starvation, particularly in northern Gaza, has been a weapon of mass destruction, genocide, murder, siege, and destruction.