Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.

One-and-a-half-year-old Mohammed Al-Matoug is battling advanced-stage malnutrition, which has caused serious deterioration of his brain and muscular function, as Israel continues its complete blockade of the Gaza Strip, preventing the entry of humanitarian aid. pic.twitter.com/E2lKdZzrbF

Israeli ground troops for the first time have pushed into areas of a central Gaza city where several aid groups are based.

The Society of Journalists at AFP warns that Gaza-based freelancers face absolute poverty and health deterioration, with one photographer lacking strength to work.

Tens of Palestinians in Gaza City queued up in long lines around a soup kitchen with their pots, hoping to fill them up with whatever little they could get from the watery tomato soap that has little eggplant pieces in it.

More than a hundred aid organizations warned Wednesday that “mass starvation” was spreading in Gaza under Israeli assault and aid restrictions.

The bombardment of Gaza has left a toxic legacy of contaminated soil, blackened water and disease-spreading garbage that will last generations.