Residents say they have taken to searching piles of rubble and garbage for anything to feed their children, who barely eat one meal a day.
Many families have begun mixing animal and bird food with grain to bake bread. International aid officials say they have encountered catastrophic hunger. 'We're dying from starvation,' Soad Abu Hussein, a widow and mother of five children who has taken shelter in a school in the Jabaliya refugee camp, said Saturday.
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