Middle East latest: 2 children and a woman crushed to death outside Gaza bakery amid food shortage

Two children and a woman have been crushed to death as a crowd of Palestinians pushed to get bread at a bakery in the Gaza Strip amid a worsening food crisis in the war-ravaged territory. The casualties were taken to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza. A doctor confirmed they died from suffocation due to crowding at the al-Banna bakery. The flow of food allowed into Gaza by Israel has fallen to nearly its lowest level of almost 14-month-old war for the past two months, according to Israeli official figures. U.N. and aid officials say hunger and desperation are growing among Gaza’s population, almost all of which relies on humanitarian aid to survive.