Overview

• UNRWA reports that one in five children in Gaza City are malnourished and severe acute cases have tripled in the past weeks
• More than 100 Palestinians, mostly young children, have died of hunger as the blockade chokes off food access
• UNICEF warns that ready-to-use therapeutic food stocks will run out by mid-August, endangering thousands of malnourished children
• Aid organizations say hundreds of trucks full of food and medical supplies remain idle at border crossings due to Israeli security and vetting measures
• United Nations agencies label the crisis mass man-made starvation under Israel’s control of aid flows, a charge Israel rejects by blaming Hamas