Doctors and aid workers inside Gaza are reporting the highest levels of malnutrition in children they have ever seen as the hunger crisis reportedly continues to worsen.

Hunger and disease continue to stalk Palestinians in Gaza, and aid organizations are warning that children are at greatest risk of starvation. A U.N. worker has described people as "walking corpses."

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Civil defence spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP that five people were killed in a strike on Gaza City that hit a school building sheltering Palestinians displaced by the war, now in its 22nd month. Bassal said five others were killed when an Israeli strike hit a tent used by displaced Palestinians also in Gaza City, in the territory’s north.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and U.S. President Donald Trump appeared on Friday to abandon Gaza ceasefire negotiations with Hamas, both claiming it had become clear that the Palestinian militants did not want a deal.

Israel will coordinate airdrops of aid into Gaza from foreign countries in the coming days, an Israeli security official confirmed to ABC News.

Dozens of people have starved to death in Gaza the last few weeks, according to local health authorities. Israel, which cut off all supplies to Gaza from the start of March and reopened it with new restrictions in May,

Israel is permitting supplies to enter the territory in quantities catastrophically insufficient for its approximately 2 million residents.

Israeli ground troops for the first time have pushed into areas of a central Gaza city where several aid groups are based.