A report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or IPC, which evaluates global food emergencies, projected that 14,100 children in Gaza under age 5 would become severely malnourished over an 11-month period beginning in April 2025.

Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in recent days as Israel has intensified air strikes, the Hamas-run health ministry says.

A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral,