The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) says the nutritional situation in Gaza is now “even more dire than in the past 19 months”, with essential food supplies having “run out in both markets and distribution centres”, Al Jazeera reports.

“The nutritional front, the population is facing once again at extreme risk of famine”, the PRCS said in its latest situation update.

“There is an inability to meet even the minimum daily needs of over a million displaced people,” it said.

The Red Crescent’s food stocks allocated for displaced people are now “completely depleted”, with “limited quantities of legumes” being “distributed to community kitchens to cover some of the basic needs of displaced individuals”.

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