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.

JERUSALEM/GAZA, July 27 — Israel has said it would halt military operations each day for 10 hours in parts of Gaza and allow new aid corridors in the shattered enclave, where images of hungry Palestinians have alarmed the world.

GENEVA, July 24 — Gaza is suffering man-made mass starvation caused by a blockade on aid into the Palestinian enclave, World Health Organisation (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Wednesday.