Video posted on social media, and verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking unit, shows two children in Gaza collecting spilled flour from the sandy ground.

The Palestinian journalist who captured the footage near Hamad City in the southern Gaza Strip, asks the boys if they plan to eat the flour, and they respond affirmatively.

On Friday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported a spike in acute malnutrition among Palestinian children in Gaza in recent months.

The agency said the number of cases in northern Gaza spiked 300 percent from May to July. In the south of the enclave, it jumped by more than 150 percent during the same period.