The leading international authority on food crises predicted "widespread death" in Gaza without immediate action.

The Gaza Strip is experiencing famine conditions, a group of global food-insecurity experts said, the most dire assessment of the enclave’s deepening hunger crisis since the war began.“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,

For months, humanitarian aid organizations and international bodies have warned that Gaza is facing "critical" levels of hunger and that famine is "imminent" in parts of the Gaza Strip. An increasing number of deaths due to malnutrition have also been reported and gut-wrenching images have emerged of suffering children and long food lines.

Several others injured as Israeli army targets tents sheltering displaced civilians, residential apartment - Anadolu Ajansı

Shifa Hospital said the dead and wounded were among crowds massed at the Zikim Crossing, the main entry point for humanitarian aid to northern Gaza.