UN aid chief Tom Fletcher says supplies delivered on Sunday during an Israeli military pause in parts of Gaza were "a drop in the ocean".

The head of the UN refugee agency for Palestinians (UNRWA) called Tuesday for flooding the Gaza Strip with a “massive scale-up of aid” to end famine in the Israel-blockaded enclave. “The worst-case scenario of famine is now happening in Gaza,

The United Nations and experts say that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

Tsav 9 is the name of a far-right Israeli group whose stated goal is to bring back Israeli hostages by putting pressure on Hamas in Gaza. Its activities include blocking aid supply trucks to Gaza and delegitimizing the work of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees.

Pressure is mounting on Israel at the United Nations as the international community discusses how to advance a two-state solution in the Middle East between a future Palestinian state and Israel. France and Saudi Arabia have convened a high-level conference on the issue,

United Nations aid chief Tom Fletcher has demanded that Israel provide evidence for its accusations that staff with the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs were affiliated with Palestinian militants Hamas,

Against the backdrop of ongoing warnings of a deadly hunger crisis, some aid has reached the Gaza Strip, the United Nations said on Thursday. The UN confirmed that its teams were able to collect mainly flour at two border crossings on Wednesday and bring it into the coastal strip,

UNRWA provides aid and services to some 2.5 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza and the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem, as well as 3 million more in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.

THE hunger crisis spreading across Gaza can now be seen from space in gut-wrenching satellite images. Thousands of starving Palestinians can be seen crowding around aid trucks begging for food in