To understand the limits of how little food the human body can endure and to get a better idea of how serious the situation is on the ground in Gaza, PBS News spoke with Jeanette Bailey, the Global Practice Lead for Nutrition at the International Rescue Committee.

“Acute malnutrition is the physiological process that leads to starvation … many children, especially, never even reach that stage of starvation because they succumb to illness far earlier in the acute malnutrition process,” Bailey said.

Bailey explains the stages that lead to starvation– acute malnutrition, moderate acute malnutrition, severe acute malnutrition and complicated acute malnutrition– take time and do not happen immediately.

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