At least 32 people, many of them children, have died of malnutrition in Gaza since the fighting broke out on October 7, AFP reports.

Since then Israel’s retaliatory military campaign has killed 36,439 people in Gaza, also mostly civilians, according to the health ministry.

But aid agencies warn that the situation is even worse when it comes to children.

On Saturday, the World Health Organisation said that more than four in five children had gone a whole day without eating at least once in 72 hours.

“Children are starving,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said in a statement.

The rise in malnutrition among Gaza’s children is largely a result of humanitarian aid that enters the Palestinian territory not reaching its intended destination, aid agencies said.

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