Aid agencies say the limited amount of aid Israel has allowed into Gaza in the last week is unlikely to avert the famine experts have warned about for months.

While at first most of the starvation-related deaths were among children and infants, increasingly, older people are succumbing to the hunger that Israel has imposed upon the enclave since March.

On Sunday, six more adults died from malnutrition, bringing the number of adults to die from hunger in Gaza to 82 over the last five weeks, when such deaths were first recorded.

Ninety-three children have also been killed by Israel through the man-made malnutrition it has imposed upon the enclave since its war began.

So, how does starvation happen? Are we seeing the whole picture?

Here’s what we know.

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