EPAAlmost one in three people in Gaza spend days without eating, warned the United Nations food aid program.
“Malnutrition is increasing with 90,000 women and children with an urgent need for treatment,” the World Food Program (WFP) said in a statement to the AFP news agency.
Famine warnings in Gaza have intensified this week. On Friday, nine other people died of malnutrition, according to the Hamas Ministry of Hamas in the territory – bringing the total of these deaths since the start of the war at 122.
Israel, who controls the entry of all supplies to Gaza, says that there is no restriction to help entering the territory and blames Hamas for all malnutrition.
On Friday, an Israeli security official said that aid airbruits could be authorized in the coming days – something that help agencies have previously warned is an ineffective way to obtain supplies in Gaza.
While local media reported that the United Arab Emirates and Jordan would make the last drops, a senior Jordanian official told the BBC that his soldiers had not yet received Israel authorization to do so.
The UN described this decision as a “distraction to inaction” by the Israeli government.
This decision occurred in the midst of the international concern of humanitarian conditions in Gaza.
Friday, Germany, France and the United Kingdom called Israel to “immediately raise restrictions on the flow of aid” in the territory.
In a joint declaration, they called for an immediate end to the “humanitarian disaster that we are witnessing in Gaza” and the war itself, adding that Israel must “confirm its obligations under international humanitarian law”.
“The restraint of humanitarian aid essential to the civilian population is unacceptable,” read the declaration.
The UN secretary general, António Guterres, said that he could not “explain the level of indifference and inaction that we see too much in the international community – the lack of compassion, the lack of truth, the lack of humanity”.
Addressing the AMNESTY International World Assembly, he said that more than 1,000 Palestinians had been killed when they have been trying to access food since May 27 – when the United States and Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) American and Israeli began to distribute supplies as an alternative to the not directed system.
An American security entrepreneur who worked for the GHF in May and June 2025 told the BBC on Friday that he had “without a doubt … Warning crimes” on Friday during this period.
Anthony Aguilar said he saw American TSAhals and entrepreneurs using live ammunition, artillery, mortar rounds and tank fires on civilians on food distribution sites.
The retired soldier said: “During my career, I have never witnessed the level of brutality and the use of the blind and useless force against a civilian population until I am in Gaza in the hands of the FDI and the American entrepreneurs.”
In his response, the GHF said that complaints – who came from a “former unhappy entrepreneur who had been dismissed for misconduct a month ago” – were “categorically false”.
Meanwhile, the future of talks to obtain a new ceasefire and the agreement with the hostage remained uncertain, after the United States and Israel withdrew their Qatar negotiation teams.
US President Donald Trump said Hamas “didn’t really want to conclude an agreement.”
“I think they want to die,” he said.
Hamas expressed its surprise at the American remarks.
A senior Hamas official also told the BBC Gaza correspondent that the mediators had informed that group negotiations had not collapsed and said that the Israeli delegation was to return to Doha next week.
Israel launched a war in Gaza in response to the attack led by Hamas against southern Israel on October 7, 2023, during which around 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were taken hostage.
More than 59,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas.
Israel imposed a total blockade of aid deliveries in early March and resumed its military offensive against Hamas two weeks later, collapsing a cease-fire of two months. He said he wanted to put pressure on the group to release his remaining Israeli hostages.
Although the blockade was partially attenuated after almost two months in the midst of the warnings of an imminent famine of global experts, the shortages of food, medicine and fuel have worsened.
Most of the Gaza population has been moved several times and more than 90% of the houses are estimated to be damaged or destroyed.
