The World Health Organisation has said that malnutrition in northern Gaza was “particularly extreme”, Reuters reports.

“The situation is particularly extreme in northern Gaza,” said Richard Peeperkorn, WHO representative for Gaza and the West Bank.

He said that 1 in 6 children under two years of age were acutely malnourished in northern Gaza.

“This was in January. So the situation is likely to be greater today,” Peeperkorn added.