
The United Nations has issued a warning, indicating that the northern Gaza region faces the imminent threat of famine, with half of its population already experiencing "crisis levels of food insecurity or worse."
Senior United Nations official Cindy McCain, the American director of the U.N. World Food Programme stated on Friday that northern Gaza, heavily impacted by over six months of conflict between Israel and Hamas, has now reached a state of "full-blown famine" due to severe Israeli restrictions on food supplies to the Palestinian territory.