Half of Gaza's population is starving and residents are often going entire days without eating under Israel's bombardment of the enclave of more than 2 million people, a United Nations agency said Tuesday, Paralel.Az reports citing CNN.

"The amount of aid crossing into Gaza does not meet a fraction of the needs," the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a post on X.
Just 10% of the food required for Gaza has entered the strip over the past 70 days, Corinne Fleischer, WFP Regional Director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, said in an interview with Canada's CBC News on Sunday.

Two weeks ago, WFP warned that 97% of Palestinian households in the north of the strip and 83% in the south reported inadequate food consumption.

Since then, tens of thousands of displaced Palestinians have arrived in Gaza's southernmost governorate of Rafah in search of safety, according to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)

On Tuesday, WFP delivered food parcels to 2,350 people and hot meals to 1,750 others in Rafah, which has become Gaza's most densely populated area, OCHA said Wednesday.

"Thousands of people [in Rafah] line up before aid distribution centres in need of food, water, shelter, and protection, amid the absence of latrines and adequate water and sanitation facilities in informal displacement sites and makeshift shelters," OCHA said.