Tuesday’s alert by the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification follows an outcry over images of emaciated children in Gaza and reports of dozens of hunger-related deaths.

After a long silence, prominent Israelis and activists are increasingly raising alarms about potential war crimes being carried out by the government.

Latest data indicates that famine thresholds have been reached for food consumption in most of the Gaza Strip and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City,” it said in the report. “Amid relentless conflict,