The latest child to starve to death in Gaza weighed less than when she was born

Ahmed Abu Halib carries the body of his five-month-old baby, Zainab. Picture: Mariam Dagga/AP

A mother pressed a final kiss on what remained of her five-month-old daughter and wept. Esraa Abu Halib’s baby now weighed less than when she was born.

On a sunny street in shattered Gaza, the bundle containing Zainab Abu Halib represented the latest death from starvation after 21 months of war and Israeli restrictions on aid.