Mahmoud Basal, spokesman for Gaza’s civil defence, says his hunger strike has entered the third day and called on “the world to match the reality on the ground, take action and go on a hunger strike to show that Gaza is not alone”, Al Jazeera reports.

“The main reason that pushed me to go on a hunger strike is that I see children who cannot eat, I see men, women, patients who cannot feed themselves. The sick are unable to feed themselves,” he said, adding that more than 1,000 people have been killed while looking for food, and 85 children have starved to death.

“We are living a daily catastrophe … People are falling to the ground, they faint out of exhaustion, out of hunger, out of starvation,” Basal added.