A photographer in Gaza has told the story of how he captured a series of harrowing photographs, showing an emaciated child.
Ahmed al-Arini told BBC Newshour that he wanted to “show the rest of the world extreme hunger” that babies and children are experiencing in the Gaza Strip.
Global food security experts have not yet classified the situation in Gaza as a famine, but UN agencies have warned of man-made, mass starvation taking hold.
They have blamed Israel, which controls all supplies entering the Palestinian territory, but it has denied responsibility.
Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies into Gaza, says there is no siege and blames Hamas for any cases of malnutrition.
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