UNITED States vice president Kamala Harris has called for an “immediate ceasefire” in Gaza and urged Israel to “significantly increase the flow of aid” there.

It comes as news outlet Al Jazeera reports that medical sources have confirmed the number of Palestinian children who died as a result of malnutrition and inadequate medical care had increased to 16.

On Sunday, the out-of-service Kamal Adwan Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip said that 15 children had died as a result of malnutrition and dehydration, and that there were six other children in intensive care.