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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem

Starvation in Gaza is destroying communities – and will leave generational scars

A womon holds an emaciated child
Muhammad Zakariya Ayyoub al-Matouq, an 18-month old child in Gaza who faces life-threatening malnutrition. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

Starvation is not only killing Palestinians in Gaza one by one, but also destroying Palestinian society and inflicting permanent damage on bodies and minds, experts say.

As hopes for a ceasefire rise, the threat from extreme hunger is particularly acute because Israel has continued to deploy food controls as a weapon against civilians during previous pauses in conventional fighting, and could do so again.

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