Starving Palestinians are arriving in emergency departments across Gaza in “unprecedented numbers”, Al Jazeera reports citing the territory’s health ministry.

In a statement, the ministry said emaciated people of all ages were turning up at hospitals in the Strip in states of “extreme exhaustion and fatigue”. It warned that hundreds of them were at risk of dying of starvation.

Mohammad Abu Salmiya, director of al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, told Al Jazeera that the hospital did not have enough beds or medical supplies to treat the huge number of people suffering from severe malnutrition.

He said that 17,000 children in Gaza were suffering from severe malnutrition.