The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification said Gaza has teetered on the brink of famine for two years, but recent developments have “dramatically worsened.”

The leading international authority on food crises predicted "widespread death" in Gaza without immediate action.

International aid groups and Palestinians say the changes have only been incremental and are not enough to reverse what food experts say is a “ worst-case scenario of famine” unfolding in the war-ravaged territory.

At least 91 people have been killed near aid centers across the Gaza Strip since Wednesday, according to the government media office run by Hamas and local hospitals.

Approximately 50 Gazans have been killed and hundreds wounded while waiting to collect aid, it has been claimed.

At least 48 Palestinians were killed and dozens were wounded on Wednesday while waiting for food at a crossing in the Gaza Strip, according to a local hospital that received the casualties. The latest violence around aid distribution came as the U.