As Israel faces mounting pressure to end the Gaza war, a hospital director says the Palestinian enclave is facing "alarming numbers of deaths" from starvation.

The head of Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City said on Tuesday that 21 children had died across the Palestinian territory in the past three days “due to malnutrition and starvation”. “These deaths were recorded at hospitals in Gaza,

Fifteen deaths have been reported over the past day, the Hamas-run ministry says, as the UN warns of "soaring" malnutrition.