Gaza residents surviving off animal feed and rice as food dwindles

Children in northern Gaza go without Gaza for days as ai BBC onvoys are denied access to the area.

So days esidents have resorted to grinding animal feed into flour to survive, but even stocks of those grains are dwindling, they say.

The UN has warned that acute malnutrition among young children in the north has risen sharply, and is now above the critical threshold of 15%.

Israeli military agency taske UN with coordinating aid access in Gaza says there is "no starvation in Gaza".

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