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.

While UN and European officials hope that a cease-fire deal would help ease suffering among the Strip’s population, Israelis worry that as in the

The UN rights office said on Friday it had recorded at least 798 deaths at aid distribution points in Gaza, including those run by the US, and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, as well as near other convoys operated by relief organisations.

The United Nations warned Saturday that dire fuel shortages in the Gaza Strip had reached “critical levels,” threatening to dramatically increase the suffering in the war-ravaged Palestinian territory.

An independent investigator is being sanctioned by the United States over her work scrutinizing human rights abuses in the Palestinian territory.