The leading international authority on food crises says the “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza" and it predicts “widespread death” without immediate action.

Humanitarian aid organizations and international bodies have warned that Gaza is facing "critical" levels of hunger and that famine is "imminent" in parts of the strip.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said, “the worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip.”

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff was expected to arrive in Israel on Thursday in a bid to salvage Gaza ceasefire talks and tackle a humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, where a global hunger monitor has warned that famine was unfolding.

International aid supplies have once again been dropped from the air over the sealed-off Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Thursday. The deliveries comprised 43 pallets of food dropped by parachute from Jordanian,