Overview

• WHO chief Dr Tedros calls Gaza’s hunger crisis “man-made mass starvation” as UN agencies warn of emergency malnutrition levels
• IDF announced airdrops of seven food pallets and the opening of humanitarian corridors for UN convoys after a temporary pause
• World Food Programme reports half of its 138 requests to collect aid from holding sites were denied, leaving hundreds of loaded trucks stranded
• Gaza Health Ministry records at least 124 hunger-related deaths, including 83 children, and MSF says severe malnutrition in under-five-year-olds has trebled
• Residents say they have resorted to eating grass, animal feed and improvised dough as shortages deepen under Israel’s blockade