The school, run by the UN’s agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), is housing 14,000 displaced civilians in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.

According to Louise Wateridge, a UNRWA spokesperson, the shelter has not had any food to distribute since March 11, and once-healthy children are now “unrecognisable” because of severe malnutrition and disease.

“Our colleagues shared that two people had already died in this facility because of the lack of sanitation and there is a spread of hepatitis A and skin diseases,” she said.

“The facility only has 25 toilets, meaning 560 people are sharing one single toilet with no hygiene products and a shortage of water due to lack of fuel, to pump the water from the well.”