Almost one in three people in Gaza are going days without eating, the UN's food aid programme has warned. "Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment," the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement to news agency AFP.

Gaza’s population is facing the “worst-case scenario of famine” and “widespread death” will occur without immediate action, the leading international authority on food crises has warned

Gaza faces a severe risk of famine, with food consumption and nutrition indicators at their worst levels since the conflict began, according to a Integrated Food Security Phase Classification Alert.