Gaza’s Health Ministry has recorded four more hunger-related deaths over the past 24 hours, Al Jazeera reports.

The latest count brings the total number of Palestinians who starved to death during Israel’s war on Gaza to 239, including 106 children.

A malnourished Palestinian child gets a check up at a medical point run by a local NGO affiliated with the primary health care of the Palestinian health ministry in al-Mawasi, in the southern Gaza Strip district of Khan Yunis, on August 13, 2025. — AFP
A malnourished Palestinian child gets a check up at a medical point run by a local NGO affiliated with the primary health care of the Palestinian health ministry in al-Mawasi, in the southern Gaza Strip district of Khan Yunis, on August 13, 2025. — AFP

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