Gaza Starvation Warning From Aid Agencies As Israel Is Urged To End Blockade

More than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups are warning of mass starvation in Gaza and pressing for governments to take action.

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), Save the Children and Oxfam are among the signatories of a joint statement that says their colleagues and the people they serve are “wasting away”.

Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies into Gaza, denies it is responsible for the increasingly severe food shortages.

The organisations’ warning comes as the territory’s Hamas-run health ministry said another 10 Palestinians had died as a result of malnutrition in the last 24 hours.

That brings the number of such deaths across Gaza since Sunday to 43, according to the ministry.

The UN has reported that hospitals have admitted people in a state of severe exhaustion caused by a lack of food, and that others were said to be collapsing in the streets.