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Young people hunger for change, Akoa said, but not yet to the point where they will take the risk of protesting en masse as in other countries in Africa and Asia.

Israel has repeatedly denied that starvation is taking place in Gaza, and Netanyahu has said that where there is hunger, it is the fault of aid agencies and Hamas.

Saragosa’s concern echoes what many food bank leaders across the country are saying: the crisis isn’t just about hunger, but policy.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced millions and pushed nearly 25 million into acute hunger.

"When I came out of that, I stopped the hunger strikes because I was a bit terrified of how far I went," he says.