Cindy McCain, the executive director of the World Food Programme, called attention to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, which she described as “full-blown famine,” as the war between Israel and Hamas is about to enter its eighth month.

A top U.N. official on Sunday accused Israel of continuing to deny the United Nations humanitarian access in the Gaza Strip, where the U.N. food chief warned a "full-blown famine" has taken hold in the north of the enclave of 2.

The leader of the World Food Program said that parts of the Gaza Strip are experiencing a “full-blown famine” that is spreading across the territory after almost seven months of war that have made delivering aid extremely challenging.

A WFP spokesman says that one of the three benchmarks for a formal famine declaration has already been met in northern Gaza and another is nearly met — important details on how far the effort to document deadly hunger has progressed.

Cindy McCain, has warned of a “full-blown famine” in the northern region of the Gaza Strip. Although reports of widespread starvation and