Palestinian mothers sheltering in schools and hospitals in central Gaza have reported children being dehydrated and severely underweight, Al Jazeera reports.

The mother of a one-and-a-half-year-old boy, Yamen Mohammed Hajjaj, said she was displaced from the Shujaiya neighbourhood to al-Nuseirat camp and suffered from dehydration and diarrhoea after staying in a UNRWA school.

Another woman said her child had contracted gastroenteritis and lost half her weight as a result of a lack of nutrition.