00:00In Gaza, starvation has stalked the most vulnerable first.
00:06Children with pre-existing conditions waste away quickly
00:09because high-calorie foods and nutritional supplements have run out.
00:13Sama Matar's sons, Yusuf and Amir, have cerebral palsy and malnutrition.
00:19Before the war, the quality of their health was excellent.
00:23There were special benefits such as the food, the food, the food, the food, the food, the food.
00:29The soldiers put it in the freezer and took it for them.
00:32The biscuits, the cake.
00:34At the moment, these things are all over.
00:36They have a lot of health care.
00:38They have a lot of health care.
00:41They are not able to provide any of their benefits.
00:45They have a lot of health care.
00:48Omineya Mahra's children, Oday, and Mohamed suffer from a genetic nerve disorder.
00:53They also have malnutrition.
00:55Over the past month, 28 children have died of malnutrition-related causes, according
01:20to the Gaza Health Ministry, though it's not known how many have had other conditions.
01:24Israel denies a famine is taking place, or that children are starving. It says it has
01:29supplied enough food throughout the war, and accuses Hamas of causing shortages by stealing
01:34aid and trying to control food distribution. Humanitarian groups deny that significant
01:40diversion of food takes place. Throughout nearly 22 months of war, the number
01:45of aid trucks has been far short of the roughly 500 a day the UN says is needed.
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