Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq is photographed, spine and ribs exposed, in his mother's arms in the bare tent they now share in Gaza City.
Aged 18 months, the stark reality of the war is all he has ever known. He is said to have dropped from nine kilograms to just six - half the weight of a healthy child his age - as the civilian population of Gaza wrestles with the threat of starvation.
These harrowing images, taken by journalist Ahmed al-Arini, featured in the pages of newspapers around the world this week, a poignant reminder of the human toll of the conflict as leaders debate the sense in continuing peace talks.
Mr al-Arini told the BBC: 'I took this photo because I wanted to show the rest of the world the extreme hunger that babies and children are suffering from in the Gaza Strip.
He said that Muhammad and his mother had been displaced by the conflict from their home in northern Gaza, and that he found them in a tent entirely bare 'bar a little oven'.
