People living in the isolated north of Gaza have told the BBC that children are going without food for days, as aid convoys are increasingly denied permits to enter. Some residents have resorted to grinding animal feed into flour to survive, but even stocks of those grains are now dwindling, they say.
People have also described digging down into the soil to access water pipes, for drinking and washing.
The UN has warned that acute malnutrition among young children in the north has risen sharply, and is now above the critical threshold of 15%.
The UN's humanitarian coordination agency, Ocha, says more than half the aid missions to the north of Gaza were denied access last month, and that there is increasing interference from Israeli forces in how and where aid is delivered.
It says 300,000 people estimated to be living in northern areas are largely cut off from assistance, and face a growing risk of famine.
A spokesman for the Israeli military agency tasked with coordinating aid access in Gaza said in a briefing last month that there was "no starvation in Gaza. Period." The agency, Cogat, has repeatedly said it does not limit the amount of humanitarian aid sent to Gaza.
significant volumes of food assistance on a regular basis," said the WFP regional chief, Matt Hollingworth.
The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (Ocha) said there had been a sharp increase in the number of aid missions denied access to northern Gaza: with 56% of deliveries denied access in January, up from 14% in October to December.
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It's no surprise at all given that Hamas has a mile-long record of confiscating all humanitarian air that comes to Gaza and has not stopped. They want their people to suffer, to be miserable and blame Jews for it, being forced to live like rats while Hamas commanders and political leaders dine on thick stakes and champagne in their Qatari mansions. And the worse they suffer, the more well-meaning but gullible foreigners blindly condemn Israel and pour in money that will go to fund more Hamas weapons, which they will continue to hide in houses, hospitals, and schools, (not to mention Israeli hostages, forcing the Israeli military into a moral vs strategic dilemma) and thus continuing a never-ending cycle of death and destruction; I once again refer to Hamas' charter "We love death more than the Jews love life."
I chose that one, not because i harbour any political views, but because we can’t save the dead bit we cam act to save the living.
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