Global hunger monitoring system warns that ‘worst-case scenario of famine’ is now unfolding in Gaza.

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The UN food agency said on Tuesday that it is not getting the necessary volumes of humanitarian assistance into Gaza despite Israel issuing new measures to enable more supplies to enter the enclave.

“We have not gotten the authorisation, the permission to move in the volumes that we’ve requested,” Ross Smith, a senior regional programme adviser at the WFP’s Regional Bureau for East and Central Africa said.