The World Food Programme has warned that more than 70,000 children in Gaza are suffering from severe malnutrition, as Israel continues to block the vast majority of aid convoys.

“WFP is taking every opportunity to deliver food and nutrition assistance – but this is just a drop in the bucket,” the UN agency wrote on X.

“To avert famine and save lives, we need immediate, unrestricted and safe access to deliver.”

Aid agencies say the trickle of supplies allowed in has done little to ease Gaza’s spiralling humanitarian crisis, with food, clean water, and medicine still in critically short supply.