Gaza is now facing its fiercest fight: absolute hunger.

There’s no food to buy even if you could afford it, people there have told Al Jazeera.

The widespread hunger has been imposed by the Israeli military as it restricted the entry of aid for months and enforced a food distribution system where people get shot almost daily.

“It’s one of the most … barbaric ways to kill,” Dr James Smith, an emergency doctor who has volunteered twice in Gaza, told Al Jazeera. “Starvation is always something that is done by one person to another. It’s intended to be protracted and to maximise suffering.”

Read the full story on Al Jazeera here.

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