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Posted: 2024-03-04T22:44:24Z | Updated: 2024-03-04T22:44:24Z

Yazan al-Kafarneh, a Palestinian boy whose emaciated appearance offered the world a stark illustration of Gazas accelerating starvation crisis, has become one of the latest children in the territory to die of severe malnourishment.

Yazan was receiving medical treatment with the few resources available at Abu Yusuf al-Najjar Hospital in Gazas southernmost city of Rafah, where more than a million displaced Palestinians are trying to survive without adequate shelter or food.

Graphic photos taken on Feb. 28 and March 2, which appear below, show Yazan emaciated and bedridden while covered in blankets and receiving fluids intravenously. The photos were reposted online by activists, journalists and pro-Palestinian accounts, showing the reality of a humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza born out of Israels ongoing offensive and monthslong blockade of aid deliveries .

Yazan died of malnourishment on Monday, Al Jazeera reported. He was 10.

This child had turned into a skeleton in this war before he died, Muhammed al-Kafarneh, a relative of Yazan, told Al Jazeera in a video interview on Monday, as Yazans body was being cleaned and prepared for burial in the background.

Hunger ravaged his body. This child was suffering from several diseases, al-Kafarneh said. The war came and took away all the basic components that could give him life.

Yazans family was originally living in north Gaza which is facing its own starvation crisis before Israeli strikes displaced them several times. In a video on Instagram, Yazans father, sitting beside his emaciated son, shared a photo , taken a week before Israel began its offensive, of Yazan smiling and not visibly malnourished.

Hoping to find better health care for Yazan, who had cerebral palsy, the family arrived in Rafah . But despite his efforts, Yazans father could not locate the food, water or medicine his son needed to survive.

We found nothing, so he was met with a slow and painful death, Muhammed al-Kafarneh told Al Jazeera. The barbaric war and the oppressive actions of the Israeli occupation against the children of Gaza and its civilians must be stopped.