Schools in Gaza are packed with families who've lost their homes and family members to the bombings that have displaced almost its entire population of 2.2 million people.
The same is true of Gaza's remaining hospitals. In their grounds, tens of thousands of families are crowded into tents - while these could reasonably accommodate up to 3,000 people, in fact they are hosting 10,000 to 30,000 people.
With next to no sanitation and washing facilities and the sound of explosions a feature of daily life, lessons for children have been replaced by a daily struggle to survive.
Deaths, devastation, disease, fear and hunger are all part of the new reality they have been cast into overnight - Gazans were in the throes of a hunger crisis even before the war. Now they are on the brink of famine.
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When the coast is clear - for shifting battlefronts make access a daily problem for humanitarian agencies - the World Food Programme provides people food parcels, canned food, or wheat flour.
That small amount of aid is the difference between life and death as WFP staff - themselves running on empty - work around the clock to avert famine.
For children, boxes from UN agencies that contain essentials and food such as nutritious biscuits are among few signs they have that the outside world has not completely forgotten and forsaken them.
WFP urgently needs US$314 million to assist the majority of Gaza's residents through to May.
