A four-year-old boy has died in Gaza City from severe malnutrition caused by Israel’s total blockade of the occupied Gaza Strip, Palestinian media reported on Sunday.

Doctors at al-Ahli Arab Baptist Hospital confirmed that Mohammad Mustafa Yassin, 4, died from prolonged malnutrition.

Yassin’s death brings the number of Palestinians who have died from hunger-related causes to 58 over the past 80 days of the Israeli siege. An additional 242 people - mostly children and the elderly - have also died due to lack of access to food and medicine during this period.