The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification’s confirmation of famine in Gaza “brings shame on the entire world”, says humanitarian charity Islamic Relief, Al Jazeera reports.

“Every day our team there sees more people starving to death and children turning into living skeletons before our eyes,” the NGO said in a statement. “Many more will die unless the world acts now.”

The statement said the famine was “no accident” and was “entirely man-made, caused by Israel’s cruel and illegal blockade and the complicity of world leaders who have failed to stop the daily war crimes”.

“Never before has a famine — the most extreme and rarest form of starvation — been so widely predicted and so easily preventable, yet repeated warnings have been ignored.”