The United Nations has warned that the Israeli regime could be using starvation as weapon against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip as more people fall victim to desperate need for food and water.

The regional director of the UN agency for children in West Asia and North Africa has warned that more Palestinian children in the besieged Gaza are gradually falling victim to starvation amid fears of an ‘impending famine’ caused by Israel’s brutal war in the blockaded territory.

With more than half a million people in the besieged enclave facing a looming famine amid Israel’s military offensive, residents are desperate and aid deliveries have become chaotic and deadly.

Four months into Israeli deadly onslaughts against the besieged Gaza Strip, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has warned of unprecedented levels of famine-like conditions in the besieged Palestinian territory.

The analysis shows the entire population of Gaza is now at risk of famine and facing crisis levels of food insecurity or worse. This is the highest proportion of people facing food insecurity that the IPC has ever analysed in any country or region in history.

Famine could destabilize Africa, says African Union chief and Senegal's President Macky Sall.

Roughly 23 million people are facing acute food insecurity as a result, and that number is liable to grow if the international response remains as limited and piecemeal as it has been. Nothing better illustrates the cruelty and destructiveness of economic warfare than the current situation in Afghanistan, which is being subjected to the equivalent ...