GENEVA: Doctors Without Borders charity said Friday that a quarter of all young children and pregnant or breastfeeding women screened at its clinics in Gaza last week were malnourished, blaming Israel’s “policy of starvation.” The medical aid group known by its French acronym MSF said that “Israeli authorities’ deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels, with patients and health care workers themselves now fighting to survive.” It said that its staff in the besieged and war-torn Palestinian territory were receiving growing numbers of malnourished patients

As more than 100 human rights groups and charities demand more aid for Gaza, Bel Trew and Nedal Hamdouna report on the besieged strip’s food crisis

Gaza is starving, and Israel is responsible. According to the Gaza Health Ministry, 111 people have died from malnutrition since the war began, most of them children. Alarmingly,…