The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) warned on Sunday that "the disruption of the distribution of nutritional supplements in the Gaza Strip threatens the lives of more than 3,000 children suffering from acute malnutrition."

"The ongoing situation in Rafah represents a disaster for children," Jonathan Crakes, head of communications at UNICEF's office in the Palestinian territories, told the British newspaper The Guardian: "The ongoing situation in Rafah represents a disaster for children."

Crix added, "The disruption to the distribution of nutritional supplements, especially ready-to-use therapeutic foods, to treat malnutrition among children, will stop the treatment of more than 3,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition."

The Guardian quoted the Integrated Phase Classification for Food Security (IPC) group as saying that “southern parts of Gaza would also face the risk of famine in the worst-case scenarios, including the Israeli invasion now underway.”

The acting country director of the World Food Program in Palestine, Matthew Hollingsworth, called for urgent action to prevent this from becoming a reality, according to The Guardian.

He continued: "By the time famine is declared, it is already too late, and there are already too many deaths."

He added: "We are not necessarily too late in southern and central Gaza, but we have to act now."

The Israeli war on Gaza, which has been ongoing since October 7, left more than 118,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.

Israel continues this war, ignoring a Security Council resolution demanding that it stop the fighting immediately, and orders from the Court of Justice to stop its attack on Rafah, and take immediate measures to prevent acts of “genocide” and “improve the humanitarian situation” in Gaza.