Over 300 deaths from starvation since October 2023, says D-G Tedros

Putrajaya urges action against Zionist regime over aggression in besieged Gaza enclave

Children starving, malnourished as Zionist regime’s blockade in Gaza enclave persists

Eleven killed as houses demolished in city's east, as Hamas prepares to resume ceasefire talks

EU, others urge Israel to provide authorisation for all international NGOs, unblock essential humanitarian actors from operating

Over 61,000 deaths in Gaza Strip since October 2023

Ottawa deploys nearly 10 tonnes of humanitarian assistance as hunger spreads in Palestine.

More Gazans die seeking aid as Israel targets distribution sites with gunfire, airstrikes.

LONDON, July 30 — The United Kingdom yesterday said it would recognise Palestine’s statehood in September unless Israel takes steps to relieve suffering in Gaza, where starvation is spreading, and reaches a ceasefire in the nearly two-year war with Hamas.

NEW YORK/GENEVA, July 29 — Famine is "playing out" in the Gaza Strip, a global hunger monitor said in an alert issued on Tuesday as international criticism of Israel intensifies over rapidly worsening conditions in the Palestinian enclave.

GENEVA, July 28 — A long-term steady supply of aid is needed to counter the worsening hunger crisis in Gaza, United Nations agencies said today after mounting pressure prompted Israel to ease restrictions in the Palestinian enclave.

GENEVA, July 22 — The head of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) today said its staff, as well as doctors and humanitarian workers, were fainting on duty in Gaza due to hunger and exhaustion.

ISTANBUL, May 26 — UN World Food Programme (WFP) executive director Cindy McCain warned yesterday that half a million people in Gaza are "extremely food insecure" and at risk of famine, urging the international community to step up efforts to deliver humanitarian aid on a large scale, Anadolu Ajansi reported.

GENEVA, Feb 28 — The UN human rights chief warned of the risk of a further escalation of the war in Sudan on Thursday and said that there was a growing risk of deaths from starvation on a wide scale.

GENEVA, Nov 27 — More than 700 trucks are on their way to famine-stricken areas of Sudan as part of a major scale-up after clearance came through from the Sudan government, a World Food Programme spokesman said yesterday.

PHNOM PENH, Nov 10 — The United Nations has called for urgent international intervention in famine looming over Myanmar’s Rakhine state as it could herald social and economic chaos.

NAIROBI/CAIRO, Aug 28 — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is investigating two of its top officials in Sudan over allegations including fraud and concealing information from donors about its ability to deliver food aid to civilians amid the nation’s dire hunger crisis, according to 11 people with knowledge of the probe.

KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 21 — Agriculture and Food Security Minister Datuk Seri Mohamad Sabu has called on the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) to take swift action against hunger and famine in Palestine.

NEW YORK, Aug 2 — More than half of Sudan’s population now face acute hunger, a United Nations spokesman said yesterday.

AMMAN, June 13 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that more than 8,000 children aged under five in the Gaza Strip have been treated for acute malnutrition, including 1,600 suffering from severe acute malnutrition, resulting in 28 deaths, Jordan News Agency reported.