As Israel continues to issue strenuous denials, the daily, ongoing count of people in Gaza either dead or dying from malnutrition suggests the famine in the territory is taking a deeper hold.

In the last two weeks since the world's foremost authority on food insecurity declared a famine in Gaza City , 70 people have died of hunger, according to local health authorities.

One of them was 17-year-old Ahmed Ali Al-Batniji.

In an interview with CBC News shortly before his death, the teenager described in excruciating detail his fight to stay alive and what it feels like to have his body wither away and ultimately start to shut down.

"Every day, I'm in pain — and it gets worse by the day," Ahmed told CBC freelance videographer Mohamed El Saife in Gaza City on Aug. 20.

"There are rashes th

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