In the ruins of Gaza, children are starving to death and there's no cease-fire in sight

Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.

Five months after Hamas launched multipronged attacks on Israel, almost half of Gaza’s buildings lie in ruins and at least 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, according to the enclave’s Health Ministry, which, along with aid agencies, is warning that some of the most vulnerable children in the territory have begun to starve to death. The Israeli military controls swaths of the Gaza Strip, and it has threatened to attack Rafah, a southern city where 1.

warned last week that famine in Gaza was “almost inevitable,” Adele Khodr, the regional director of the U.N.’s children’s agency, UNICEF, warned Sunday that “the child deaths we feared are here as malnutrition ravages the Gaza Strip.” The World Health Organization, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency and the World Food Program have issued similar warnings.

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