At the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, Abu Gibril is so desperate for food to feed his family that he has slaughtered two of his horses.

“We had no other choice but to slaughter the horses to feed the children. Hunger is killing us,” he told AFP.

Jabalia is the biggest camp in the Palestinian territories before the fighting.

Gibril, 60, fled there from nearby Beit Hanun when the conflict erupted.Home for him and his family is now a tent near what was a UN-run school.

Now food is running out, with aid agencies unable to get into the area because of the bombing — and the frenzied looting of the few trucks that try to get through.

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