By Rawan Sheikh Ahmad, Isabel Kershner and Abu Bakr Bashir
New York Times·
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Displaced Palestinians waiting for food at a charity kitchen in Gaza City yesterday. Severe hunger has gripped the war-torn Palestinian enclave, where growing numbers of people are starving and the doctors treating them are working on empty stomachs. Photo / Saher Alghorra, the New York Times
Atef Abu Khater, 17, who was healthy before the Gaza Strip was gripped by war, lies in intensive care in a hospital in the north of the Palestinian enclave, suffering from severe malnutrition.
“He is not responding to the treatment,” said his father, A’eed Abu Khater, 48, who has been