Dhaka, May 23 -- Majed Abu Ramadan says 29 Palestinian children, elderly people killed as hunger grips bombarded enclave. At least 29 children and elderly people have died from "starvation-related" deaths in the Gaza Strip in recent days, the Palestinian health minister says, warning that thousands more are at risk as limited aid begins trickling into the bombarded enclave.

Majed Abu Ramadan told reporters on Thursday that earlier comments by the United Nations aid chief to the BBC that 14,000 babies could die without desperately needed food aid were "very realistic", but could be an underestimation.

Israel has allowed limited deliveries of humanitarian aid into Gaza amid a wave of international condemnation of its 11-week total blockad...