The amount of aid being blocked by Israel has increased substantially from 2023, when just 34 percent of food aid was being blocked, the organisations announced in the statement.

Amjad Al Shawa, the director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) said in the statement that 100 percent of Gaza’s population is now dependent on aid and the shortages mean people are starving.

“We are overwhelmed [with] these needs and [these] urgent requirements”, Al Shawa added.

The aid organisations that released the statement included Save the Children, ActionAid, Christian Aid and Islamic Relief.

Israel has continued its military onslaught against the besieged enclave following an attack on October 7 last year by Hamas, despite a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire.

The offensive has resulted in more than 41,200 Palestinian deaths, mostly women and children, and over 95,400 injuries, according to local health authorities.

The military campaign has turned much of the enclave of 2.3 million people into ruins, leaving most civilians homeless, at risk of famine and prone to disease.

Israel also faces accusations of genocide for its actions in the enclave at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

After 11 months of Israel’s near-total blockade on humanitarian aid, top United Nations experts have warned that Israel is engaged in a “targeted starvation campaign” in the besieged enclave.

Dozens of children have died of malnutrition since the war began in October, according to the Palestinian health ministry. Israeli attacks have also killed hundreds of aid workers in Gaza.

The World Food Program (WFP) has sounded the alarm that 2.2 million Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip are still in “urgent” need of food aid after 11 months of war.

According to stats released by the WFP, 96 percent of the population of Gaza is facing acute food insecurity, with 2.15 million people at crisis levels of hunger or worse, as the Israeli regime is using famine as a weapon of war.

Furthermore, the WFP says almost half a million people in Gaza are in “catastrophic conditions”.

“As of 16 September, more than 55 evacuation orders remain in effect, covering more than 85% of Gaza. The latest evacuation order was issued in northern Gaza on Saturday,” Spokesman Stephane Dujarric said during a news conference on Monday, citing Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Stating that “repeated displacements are also separating families”, Dujarric added it is also “eroding social protection systems, particularly for women and children.”

With Israeli-issued evacuation orders hindering the delivery of aid across Gaza, Dujarric said: “Between 1 and 15 September of the 94 planned humanitarian missions coordinated with the Israeli authorities for northern Gaza, only 37 – or 39%– were facilitated.”

“In southern Gaza, just over 50% of the 243 coordinated humanitarian movements were facilitated,” he continued, adding that OCHA is unable to access northern Gaza for 28 days.

He further stated that “aid convoys are being fired at or otherwise exposed to life-risking conditions, stopped and delayed for hours in combat zones”.

Asked about whether the UN perceives Israel’s ongoing evacuation orders as forced displacement, Dujarric said: “We see it as giving people very little options in order to just stay alive and survive.”

“People need to be protected, whether they move or whether they stay there,” he noted, adding that there “needs to be humanitarian aid” reaching to those in need.

“What we’re seeing is that no place is safe in Gaza.”

Responding to Anadolu’s question on the Ministry of Health in Gaza’s recently published document detailing every Palestinian killed since Oct. 7, Dujarric said “women and children have been bearing the brunt of it.”

He reiterated the call for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.

The recently published document includes the names, ages, genders, and identifications of Palestinians killed between Oct. 7 and Aug. 31, highlighting that 60% of the victims are women, children, and the elderly, with the first 14 pages listing those under one year old.

Despite a UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate cease-fire, Israel has continued its brutal offensive on the Gaza Strip following an attack by Palestinian group Hamas last Oct. 7.

More than 41,000 people, mostly women and children, have since been killed and over 95,000 injured, according to local health authorities.

The Israeli onslaught has displaced almost the entire population of the territory amid an ongoing blockade that has led to severe shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.

Israel also faces accusations of genocide for its actions in Gaza at the International Court of Justice.

“Sanitary conditions in Gaza are worsening by the day. Insects and rodents can spread diseases, threatening people’s health and well-being,” UNRWA said in a post on X.

“UNRWA teams are working to help displaced families in shelters stop them from invading people’s already crammed living spaces,” it added.

Rubbish has been piling up across Gaza after Israel seized control of the territory’s two main landfills, east of the cities of Khan Younis and Gaza City.

The United Nations has announced the completion of the first phase of the polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip. However, it warned that the risk of other diseases remains high due to unsanitary conditions.

Around 560,000 children under ten years old were vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign conducted in three phases from 1-12 September 2024 in the Gaza Strip.

The original target for the campaign was 640,000 children, estimated in the absence of an accurate survey, which may have been an over-estimate, as the population continues to move from place to place, and people are fleeing and being killed due to the ongoing Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

After the first confirmed polio case in Gaza in 25 years, a massive vaccination effort began.

A second round of the campaign will follow, ideally within four weeks, to provide a second dose of nOPV2 to children in Gaza to stop the outbreak and prevent its international spread.

Israel launched its military onslaught on Gaza after Hamas led an attack on southern Israel on October 7, killing at least 1,200 people.

Promising to destroy Hamas, Israel launched an assault on Gaza, which has killed at least 41,200 people, mostly women and children, according to Palestinian officials.