A third Palestinian child dies in the Gaza Strip within 24 hours of the starvation that is being imposed with full force by the Israeli regime as a means of lending further brutality to Tel Aviv’s genocidal war on the coastal sliver.

The weeks-old infant was identified as Yahya al-Najjar, who died at the Nasser Hospital in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis on Saturday.

Journalists worldwide shared harrowing pictures of the victim, which showed him lying lifelessly on the hospital bed, his body bearing clearly visible signs of extreme malnutrition.

“This is Baby Yahya Al-Najjar, and Israel's starvation has just killed him in Khan Younis,” Gaza-based journalist Ahmed al-Najjar wrote on his social media account on X.

“We scream, our children cry to the world— but no answer,” he added.

“2.3 million are on the way if no food allowed to enter into the blockaded war-torn Gaza Strip!” wrote Motasem A Dalloul, another journalist reporting from the territory.

‘Only a sip of milk away from survival’

“His tiny body only needed a sip of milk to survive,” wrote a pro-Palestinian blogger.

“He died waiting. He died hungry.”

Palestinian sources, meanwhile, also underlined the absence of the means of serving Yahya with the required medical care that could save him, as another factor contributing to his premature demise.

The fatality was among the roughly-116-strong Palestinians, who were killed throughout the territory as a result of Israeli brutality on Saturday.

As many as 38 of the deaths occurred as a result of Israeli attacks against those, who had crammed themselves around US- and Israeli-backed so-called food distribution centers in the southern Gazan city of Rafah.

‘1000s teetering on edge of catastrophic starvation’

The centers have been denounced for serving rather as “death traps” for Gazans, thousands of whom are on the “verge of catastrophic hunger,” according to the United Nations.

The mass starvation has been brought about by the Israeli regime’s tightening its 2007-present siege of Gaza to insufferable levels.

The restrictions have reduced Gaza’s food intake to nearly zero, forcing Palestinians to swarm around the distribution centers, where Israeli aggression is a regular occurrence.

The overall situation has prompted vehement criticism of Tel Aviv over its using starvation as a “weapon of war” throughout the genocide.

Since its inception in October 2023, the warfare has already claimed the lives of more than 58,700 Palestinians, mostly women and children.

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