The World Food Program said on Tuesday that in order to overcome famine in Gaza, it needs a humanitarian ceasefire and broader access to the areas.

He added that many infants and children died due to drought and malnutrition in northern Gaza in particular, while Israel continues to prevent relief teams from arriving.

Due to the continued bombing and siege imposed on the Gaza Strip from all sides, famine struck the residents of the besieged Strip, especially in the north, where about 2.2 million Gazans face famine.

According to a report issued by the World Food Program on food security in the Gaza Strip, 88% of the total population of the Strip faces emergency food insecurity or worse, and it warned that famine in northern Gaza is imminent.

According to the report, 300,000 people are still besieged in northern Gaza, noting that one in three children in Gaza under the age of two suffer from “severe malnutrition,” and it is expected that “famine will reach northern Gaza next May.”

The report goes on to say that the impending famine could be stopped if relief organizations were allowed full access to the Gaza Strip to bring food, water and other food products to the civilian population, and that a “humanitarian ceasefire is essential” to this end.

"People in Gaza are now starving to death," said World Food Program Executive Director Cindy McCain.

"The speed with which the man-made hunger and malnutrition crisis has spread in Gaza is appalling," she added.