Severely malnourished children in the Gaza Strip will be “certainly condemned to death” unless aid gets to them quickly, UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini warned Thursday.

The head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees said hunger was particularly acute in the north — where Gaza City is — where an estimated one million people remain.

Lazzarini said an evaluation on how famine has evolved in the Gaza Strip was due to be published soon, adding UNRWA health centres had seen a six-fold increase in the number of severely malnourished children since March.

“If no measures are taken immediately, they are certainly condemned to death,” he told the Geneva Press Club.

People in the Palestinian territory are already dying of hunger and “there will be more, there’s no doubt about it”, said Lazzar

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