Save the Children said on Thursday that families in Gaza are forced to forage for scraps of food left by rats and eating leaves out of desperation to survive.
Aid supplies were rapidly declining after nearly five months of Israel’s attacks in the strip, leaving all 1.1 million children facing starvation.
A Save the Children aid worker in Rafah said her relatives in northern Gaza have been driven to desperate measures to survive.
“The risk of famine is projected to increase as long as the government of Israel continues to impede the entry of aid into Gaza and access to adequate food, water, sanitation, hygiene and comprehensive health and nutrition services for children and families in urgent need,” the NGO said.
The UN has said that between January 1 and February 15, more than 50% of aid delivery and assessment missions to areas north of Wadi Gaza – where levels of starvation are highest – were denied by Israeli forces.
On February 5, the UN reported that Israeli forces fired on one of its convoys carrying food supplies in central
At least 29,410 Palestinians have been killed and 69,465 injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7.
The revised death toll in Israel from the October 7 attacks stands at 1,139.
