A family of seven were among more than 100 people killed in 24 hours of Israeli strikes or gunfire, according to health officials.
Their corpses lay in white shrouds outside their bombed home, with their names scribbled in pen. Blood seeped through the shrouds as they lay there, staining them red.
"This is my cousin. He was 10. We dug them out of the rubble," Amr al-Shaer said, holding one of the bodies after retrieving it.
Iman al-Shaer, another relative who lives nearby, said the family hadn't eaten anything before the bombs came down. "The children slept without food," he said.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike at the family's home, but said its air force had struck 120 targets throughout Gaza in the past day, including "terrorist cells, military structures, tunnels, booby-trapped structures, and additional terrorist infrastructure sites".
Relatives said some neighbours were spared only because they had been out searching for food at the time of the strike.
Ten more Palestinians died overnight from starvation, the Gaza health ministry said, bringing the total number of people who have starved to death to 111, most of them in recent weeks as a wave of hunger crashes on the Palestinian enclave.
The World Health Organization said that 21 children under the age of five were among those who died of malnutrition so far this year.
It said it had been unable to deliver any food for nearly 80 days between March and May and that a resumption of food deliveries was still far below what is needed.
In a statement, 111 organisations, including Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council and Refugees International, said mass starvation was spreading even as tons of food, clean water and medical supplies sit untouched just outside Gaza, where aid groups are blocked from accessing them.
Israel, which cut off all supplies to Gaza from the start of March and reopened it with new restrictions in May, says it is committed to allowing in aid but must control it to prevent it from being diverted by militants.
It says it has let enough food into Gaza during the war and blames Hamas for the suffering of Gaza's 2.2 million people.
Israel has also accused the United Nations of failing to actin a timely fashion, saying 700 truckloads of aid are idling inside Gaza.
"It is time for them to pick it up and stop blaming Israel for the bottlenecks which are occurring," Israeli government spokesman David Mercer said.
The United Nations and aid groups trying to deliver food to Gaza say Israel, which controls everything that comes in and out, is choking delivery, and Israeli troops have shot hundreds of Palestinians dead close to aid collection points since May.
"We have a minimum set of requirements to be able to operate inside Gaza," Ross Smith, the director of emergencies at the UN World Food Programme, said.
"One of the most important things I want to emphasize is that we need to have no armed actors near our distribution points, near our convoys."
Israel's UN Ambassador Danny Danon told the Security Council that Israel will now grant only one-month visas to international staff from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
Watch: 'Man-made mass starvation' in Gaza - WHO chief
The Director-General of the World Health Organization said that a "large proportion of the population in Gaza is starving".
I don't know what you would call it other than mass starvation - and it's man-made," Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told reporters.
Food deliveries into the war-ravaged Palestinian territory are "far below what is needed for the survival of the population," he added.
Dr Tedros added his voice to those of 111 aid organisations and rights groups who warned that "mass starvation" is spreading in Gaza.
"Our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away," they said in a joint statement.
"The 2.1 million people trapped in the war zone that is Gaza are facing yet another killer on top of bombs and bullets - starvation," Dr Tedros said.
"We are now witnessing a deadly surge in malnutrition-related deaths."
The UN health agency has documented 21 deaths in Gaza related to malnutrition of children under the age of five since the beginning of the year, but acknowledged that the true number is likely higher.
Dr Tedros warned that "the hunger crisis is being accelerated by the collapse of aid pipelines and restrictions on access".
"We demand that there is full access, and we demand that there is a ceasefire.
"We demand that there is a political solution to this problem, a lasting solution."
'An attempt to starve and kill'
Alon-Lee Green, national Co-Director of the Standing Together movement, agreed with the head of the World Health Organization, who said that a large proportion of the population of Gaza is suffering a "man-made" mass starvation.
Mr Green blamed day-to-day life in Gaza of bombings, medical emergencies, children being badly injured, on the Israeli military and the Israeli government and said it is "haunting us."
He said his organisation is calling on Israeli citizens to "wake up to do something, to resist, to refuse."
"We called upon every soldier, do not go into Gaza, do not serve this annihalation, do not take part in what the government is calling you to do, because this is just an attempt to starve and kill," he said on RTÉ's Drivetime.
He said the Israeli media is not showing or reporting the brutal reality of what is happening in Gaza.
"Our media is voluntarily deciding to hide it from the public," he said.
He said the media claims that the [Israeli] public "does not want to see it."
"But we say the public would see it and would have a stand around it or against it if they would get to see that."
He said that debate in Israel is "only now starting" as a result of pressure being put on journalists to "just do their basic job."
Mr Green said there is a "widening and awakening discussion" on social media: "You can see tens of thousands of Israelis debating it [the war] on social media, writing, this is too much, writing we need to stop not only because it does not release our hostages, but also because it is killing innocent people, that it is hurting the people of Gaza.
"You can see that it's very much spreading across the Israeli society right now," he said.
He said there is a "big chunk" of Israeli society that does not want to see the war continuing, "but there is also a big chunk of society supporting the government.
"They're not a majority, they never have been a majority, they are losing in every consistent poll.
"But these people that are supporting the government or these leaders in our government, they want to continue the war," he added.
2.1m people 'totally dependent' on humanitarian assistance
Antoine Renard, Country Director for Palestine with the World Food Programme (WFP), who is in east Jerusalem, said 2.1 million people in Gaza are "totally dependent" on humanitarian assistance.
He said that the food security situation is such that more than 80 per cent of the population "has very poor access to food."
Speaking on RTÉ's Six One News, he said this is why the situation is "so dire" and is why starvation is spreading in the Gaza Strip.
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The "chaos" in Gaza is proving a "real challenge" for the WFP to move food aid from platforms it has just at the border inside the territory.
"Two days ago, just to move 19 trucks, it took us more than 20 hours.
"We had to wait nine hours to be screened, to actually manage to get on the platform, and then come back.
"And the people are so eager to access food, that the moment our convoys are coming, directly people are taking the food from the trucks.
"We do not arrive directly to our distribution point and be able to restart our regular operation," he said.
Palestinians trapped in cycle of hope and heartbreak - NGOs
A statement with 111 signatories, including Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam, warned that "our colleagues and those we serve are wasting away".
The groups called for an immediate negotiated ceasefire, the opening of all land crossings and the free flow of aid through UN-led mechanisms.
In their statement, the humanitarian organisations said that warehouses with tonnes of supplies were sitting untouched just outside the territory, and even inside, as they were blocked from accessing or delivering the goods.
"Palestinians are trapped in a cycle of hope and heartbreak, waiting for assistance and ceasefires, only to wake up to worsening conditions," the signatories said.
"It is not just physical torment, but psychological. Survival is dangled like a mirage," they added.
"The humanitarian system cannot run on false promises. Humanitarians cannot operate on shifting timelines or wait for political commitments that fail to deliver access."
Israeli attacks have killed 59,106 Palestinians in Gaza in the current stage of the war, mostly civilians, according to the health officials in the enclave.
The Hamas 7 October 2023 attack on Israel resulted in the deaths of 1,219 people, most of them civilians, according to a tally based on official figures.
UN humanitarian affairs agency 'a tool for Hamas'
The Israeli ambassador to the United Nations confirmed today that the head of the UN's humanitarian agency in Gaza and the West Bank would be denied permission to work in the territory.
The Israeli ambassador to the UN Danny Danon said that the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) had become "a tool of Hamas".
He said Jonathan Whittall, the head of the OCHA branch in Gaza and the West Bank, would be required to leave Israel by the end of the month.
"We will no longer allow anti-Israel activity under the guise of humanitarianism," Ambassador Danon said.
He was speaking during a quarterly meeting of the United Nations Security Council on the Middle East and the Palestinian Question.
Addressing the council, the Palestinian envoy to the United Nations Riyad Mansour asked what they should say to the children of Gaza.
"What should the Security Council tell them - that the whole world is against this starvation policy, and yet it is worsening?" he said.
The UK Ambassador to the UN Barbara Woodward also slammed the Israeli-run aid distribution network as "inhumane, ineffective, dangerous and fuelling instability."
Israel has long accused the United Nations of bias against Israel and has severely restricted UN-run humanitarian operations in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said: "Any punitive measures will only add to the obstacles preventing humanitarians from reaching people facing hunger, displacement and deprivation."
Additional reporting: Yvonne Murray
