The number of Palestinian children who died due to malnutrition and lack of treatment had risen to 16, medical sources confirmed on Monday, shortly after the death of a child in Abu Youssef Al-Najjar Hospital in Rafah.

Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip said on Sunday that 15 children had died as a result of malnutrition and dehydration, and that there were six other children in intensive care, the Wafa news agency reported.