Two-year-old Yazan is quiet and motionless. You might think he is apathetic.

He hasn't eaten real food in months. While his mother Naima, 31, begs for scraps from people, there are reports that 21 children have already died from food shortages in Gaza in the last 72 hours.

More than 100 aid organizations, including Doctors Without Borders and Save the Children, are sounding the alarm about mass starvation. They are appealing for a ceasefire.

– If we leave Yazan, we will lose him. I am powerless and cannot help him. There are no jobs. If there are jobs, I am prepared to work for 10 shekels just to be able to buy bread for him. But there are no jobs, says Yazan's father Mahmoud Abou Foul, 35, to Expressen.

Says just one word

The Abou Foul family takes shelter in a half-bombed room on the ground floor of their old house. Before the war, they lived on the fifth floor. The house collapsed during the war.

The room, in the al-Shati area, lacks real windows and doors.

Mahmoud has five children. They are between two and eleven years old. Yazan is the youngest. And he is starving. He has prominent cheekbones. His gaze is absent. His arms and legs are as thin as sticks. He cannot speak. He only says one word, the family says:

“It means food. He wants food,” says his mother Naima.

While Expressen meets the family, Israeli drones are buzzing over Gaza non-stop. It's a sound that people have begun to get used to after almost two years of war.

Hunger is something you can't get used to. And it's only getting worse.

For some time now, international aid organizations have been warning of mass starvation in Gaza. Pictures from inside show emaciated children's bodies.

Israel, which controls the flow of aid into Gaza, claims that Hamas is stealing the food. For some time now, various food distribution stations have been set up in Gaza, where people queue for hours to get some food. So far, at least 900 people have died at these stations. It is crowded, there is chaos – at the same time, the Israeli army is accused of shooting at civilians.

“If you go to get food from the food distribution site, it is not certain that you will come back alive. I have small children. Should I leave them? If I go there and die – who will take care of my children? I think about it a thousand times before I go there,” says Mahmoud Abou Foul.

Got a sack of flour

He worked as a garbage collector before the war. Now he is unemployed. Sometimes he helps people with various things and gets paid a little. Yesterday, Tuesday, he earned 100 shekels, equivalent to just over 290 Swedish kronor.

“We spent 30 shekels on eggplant and the rest we bought other basic goods. It wasn’t enough to buy flour. The baker nearby gave us flour for 20 shekels and he said that when I have money I can pay him,” says Mahmoud.

Two days ago, Mahmoud dared to go to a food distribution point. He received a sack of flour.

"They took it from me. No one knows who these people are. Are they Hamas? They are profiteers. They conspire against poor people and steal aid shipments to sell on the black market," says Mahmoud.

“Please stop the war”

Mahmoud points to his young children and pleads with the world for help to stop the war. So far, at least 59,000 people, over 17,000 children, have been killed in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza.

Yazan risks becoming one of them.

– What function do these food distribution sites serve? At each site they make one or two pots. Is that enough? You have two million hungry people. The only way to stop the war, if you don't want to stop the war, is to let the aid in. Let the UN distribute vouchers so that people aren't violated and killed at the food distribution sites, says Mahmoud.

He adds:

– Please, stop the war. Enough. Enough blood. People are dying day and night because of hunger and war. This is not a life we live.