Overview

• UN food-security monitors say Gaza is in a 'worst-case' famine scenario, with acute child malnutrition surging to emergency levels.
• Hospitals across Gaza report overwhelming caseloads of severe wasting in children, teenagers and adults, straining medical capacity.
• A 20-year-old evacuee, Marah Abu Zuhri, died in Pisa after arriving emaciated on an Italian government flight, highlighting the severity of the crisis.
• Italy and the WHO have evacuated dozens of patients from Gaza this week but more than 14,800 remain on waiting lists for medical transfer abroad.
• Israeli officials deny a starvation policy while UN agencies call for secure, expanded aid corridors and an immediate ceasefire to prevent further deaths.