A one-and-a-half-year-old girl died of malnutrition in Deir al-Balah.

A one-and-a-half-year-old girl died on Friday due to malnutrition in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip.

Medical sources reported that hospitals in the Gaza Strip are treating hundreds of people suffering from severe hunger and malnutrition, as they are suffering from severe symptoms of famine.

Sources indicated that 17,000 children are suffering from severe malnutrition, and that patients are also being treated for stress and memory loss resulting from severe hunger.

She stressed that hospitals do not have enough beds or medicines to treat the huge number of people suffering from severe malnutrition.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) warned that malnutrition among children under the age of five doubled between March and June, as a result of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

She explained that UNRWA health centers and medical points conducted approximately 74,000 malnutrition tests for children during this period, identifying approximately 5,500 cases of global acute malnutrition and more than 800 cases of severe acute malnutrition.