A six-week-old infant was among 15 people who have died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, with malnutrition now killing Palestinians faster than at any point in the 21-month war.

A six-week-old infant is among 15 people who have died of starvation in Gaza in the past 24 hours, local health officials said, with malnutrition now killing Palestinians faster than at any point in the 21-month-long war.

Palestinians in Gaza City queued up in long lines around a soup kitchen with their pots, hoping to fill them up with whatever little they could get from the watery tomato soup that has little eggplant pieces in it.

The closure of schools has removed a key social outlet for young people as they grapple with war, hunger and displacement.

The fifteen Palestinians who starved to death yesterday included four children, the youngest a six-week-old baby.

Witnesses and Gaza hospital officials say Israeli troops have killed at least 32 Palestinians near aid distribution hubs in the latest deadly violence around people seeking desperately needed food.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt says President Trump was “caught off guard” by Israeli strikes in Syria and on a Catholic church in Gaza. As criticism mounts over Israel’s attacks on UN aid convoys,