The Government Media Office in Gaza warned in a statement about the continuing alarming deterioration of the situation in the coastal enclave, home to more than two million people.

“The Israeli occupation continues to impose a suffocating blockade, deliberately closing the (border) crossings completely and preventing the entry of food and humanitarian aid,” it criticized.

Famine today is no longer just a threat, but a bitter reality and represents one of the most horrific forms of slow mass slaughter, he stressed.

The text warned that more than 60,000 children suffer from severe malnutrition in the territory.

It stated that thousands of Palestinian families were forced to face death by starvation after being unable to provide a single meal for their children.

Meanwhile, the infrastructure has collapsed due to the war, he told the Office, which cited as an example the paralysis of 38 hospitals, either for lack of fuel, water, or medicines, or because they were destroyed.

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