She had weighed six pounds, six ounces at birth. Five months later, at her death, she was skin and bones with legs thinner than an ordinary pencil.

My second thought, though, was that I wished nobody had had to see those photos, because I wish neither she nor anyone else had starved to death in Gaza or any place else.

On July 27, the World Health Organization said there had been 63 deaths by starvation in Gaza so far that month, and 24 of those were children under the age of five years old.

Two days earlier, ABC News said 19 people had starved to death in the past 24 hours and that most were little children. That same day, the British newspaper, The Independent, reported that in recent weeks, 113 people had starved to death, and 82 were children.