Five more Palestinians, including a child, have died of malnutrition as a result of Israel’s punishing blockade of Gaza in the past 24 hour reporting period, the Health Ministry has said, as people in the enclave and many beyond its besieged borders mourned several journalists assassinated by Israel.The ministry on Monday said most of these victims died in the past three weeks, as Israel-imposed starvation engulfs the entire population, with the total number of severe hunger deaths now at 222, including 101 children.The Palestinian Wafa news agency later reported the death from malnutrition of an additional child, five-year-old Mohammed Zakaria Khader, bringing the overall death toll in the past 24 hours to six.The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said “children in Gaza are dying from starvation and bombardments”.“Entire families, neighbourhoods, and a generation are being wiped out,” the UN agency wrote in a post on social media. “Inaction and silence are complicity. It’s time for statements to turn into action and for an immediate ceasefire.”The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that hunger and malnutrition levels in Gaza are the highest ever recorded, with more than one-third of the population going without food for days at a time and 500,000 people on the brink of famine.The agency said Gaza …
