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Palestinian health minister reports 29 ‘starvation-related’ deaths in Gaza

Palestinians wait to receive food cooked by a charity kitchen in Gaza City, May 21 [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

At least 29 children and elderly people have died from “starvation-related” deaths in the Gaza Strip in recent days, the Palestinian health minister says, warning that thousands more are at risk as limited aid begins trickling into the bombarded enclave.

Majed Abu Ramadan told reporters on Thursday that earlier comments by the United Nations aid chief to the BBC that 14,000 babies could die without desperately needed food aid were “very realistic”, but could be an underestimation.

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