Moreover, many children who die of causes related to malnutrition likely don’t die in the hospital, where doctors could record the cause of death reut.rs/49WObmM 5/5

In addition, those injured in war zones may succumb to infections they would otherwise survive if the lack of proper nutrients hadn’t weakened their immune systems, doctors say. In such cases, malnutrition may not be recorded as the cause of death even if it played a role 4/5

Amid relentless Israeli bombing and movement restrictions, IPC analysts struggle to access key data on acute malnutrition and deaths unrelated to violence, metrics that are vital to determine if starvation has technically risen to the level of a famine 3/5

Hunger has taken hold, and the IPC has repeatedly found that Gaza's proportion of people experiencing an extreme lack of food is the highest it has seen anywhere in the world 2/5