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Newborn baby starves to death in Gaza as Israel kills 116 more Palestinians

A mourner cries next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack in Gaza City [Mahmoud Issa/Reuters]

A Palestinian baby has died of starvation in Gaza as Israel maintains its blockade on aid supplies and fires on people forced to seek food at controversial United States-backed aid sites described as “death traps”.

The 35-day-old infant died of malnutrition at Gaza City’s al-Shifa Hospital, director Muhammad Abu Salmiya told Al Jazeera. The unnamed infant was one of two people who succumbed to starvation in the facility on Saturday.

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