United Nations: Gaza food system collapsing as famine deepens

People inspect the damage after a reported Israeli strike on a clinic-turned-shelter in the northern Al-Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City on July 7, 2025. Indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas towards a ceasefire deal in the Gaza Strip have started in Qatar, a Palestinian official familiar with the talks told AFP late on July 6. -- Photo by Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP

NEW YORK (Bernama-WAFA): The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned on Monday that Gaza’s food system has completely collapsed, as famine tightens its grip on the besieged enclave.

Palestine News and Info Agency (WAFA) reported that the agency saying that the ongoing obstruction of humanitarian aid is leading to the avoidable deaths of countless civilians.

According to the UN's official website, families in Gaza are forced to risk their lives in search of food, stressing that rates of acute malnutrition have doubled among children, and that infant formula is on the verge of running out.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres reiterated his deep concern over the worsening humanitarian disaster in Gaza, once again calling for an immediate and lasting ceasefire, as well as the unconditional release of all hostages. - Bernama-WAFA