While northern Gaza remains under siege, food and supplies are stretched for the several hundred thousand people in Gaza City to the south as well, Al Jazeera reports.

Much of the city has been flattened by months of Israeli bombardment and shelling.

Dr Rana Soboh, a nutrition specialist at Gaza City’s Patient Friend Benevolent Hospital, said she sees some 350 cases of moderate to severe acute malnutrition daily – most from the north but also Gaza City.

“The bone of their chest is showing, the eyes are protruding,” she said of her patients, adding many have trouble concentrating. “You repeat something a number of times, so they can understand what we are saying.”

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