GAZA (Reuters) -Ibrahim al-Najjar said he lost his five-year-old son Naim to malnutrition that is ravaging Gaza. One year later, he is still grieving while scrambling to make sure his other children don't suffer the same fate.

"This child will follow him," the Palestinian former taxi driver said, pointing to his 10-year-old son Farah. "For about a month he's been falling unconscious. This child was once double the size he is now."

Najjar, 43, held up a medical certificate that shows Naim died on March 28, 2024. The whole family has been displaced by nearly two years of Israeli air strikes.

The Najjars had been used to eating three meals a day before the war broke out in October 2023 - after Hamas-led Palestinian militants attacked Israel - but now they can only dream of even simple foods such as bread, rice, fruit and vegetables.

Naim's brother Adnan, 20, focuses on taking care of his other brothers, rising every morning at 5:30 a.m. to wend his way gingerly through Gaza's mountains of rubble to find a soup kitchen as war rages nearby.

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