A senior UN World Food Programme official said the situation in the Gaza Strip is “worse than I’ve ever seen it before” with about 90,000 women and children suffering from malnutrition, and again called for a ceasefire.

An independent U.N. investigator and outspoken critic of Israel’s actions in Gaza said “it was shocking” to learn that the Trump administration had imposed sanctions on her.

The UN reports that nearly 800 people have been killed at Gaza food distribution sites and aid convoy routes since late May.

Sixteen Palestinians, including ten children and six adults, were killed in an Israeli airstrike while queuing for nutritional supplements in front of a clinic in central Gaza, a hospital says. Verified video footage from the strike in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip showed the bodies of women and children lying in pools of blood amid dust

Doctors Without Borders warned Friday that its teams on the ground in Gaza were witnessing surging levels of acute malnutrition in the besieged and war-ravaged Palestinian territory.The medical charity,