In a call, signed by 111 organizations, immediate negotiations on a ceasefire and the opening of border crossings to Gaza for humanitarian aid are demanded.
"Palestinians are trapped in a cycle of hope and despair, waiting for emergency aid and a ceasefire, only to wake up to even worse conditions," the organizations write in a statement.
According to them, tons of supplies are just outside Gaza's border and even within the territory, but Israel is preventing the goods from being delivered.
"Human action"
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, also warns of mass starvation in Gaza. According to him, the food deliveries that enter the Palestinian areas are "far below what is needed for the population's survival).
A large part of Gaza's population is starving. I do not know what to call it if not mass starvation – and it is due to human action, he says to reporters according to AFP.
The UN said on Tuesday that more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed in connection with the food distribution managed by the Israeli-American organization Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). The heavily criticized organization took over the responsibility for the distribution of emergency aid in Gaza on May 26, after a more than two-month-long Israeli total blockade.
Accuses Hamas
Israel claims that humanitarian aid is being let into Gaza and accuses Hamas of exploiting civilian suffering, among other things by stealing food distributions to sell them at inflated prices or shooting at those waiting for help.
In Gaza today, there is no starvation caused by Israel, says the government's spokesperson David Mencer to reporters according to AFP.
Sweden's Minister for Development Cooperation Benjamin Dousa (The Moderate Party) criticizes Israel in sharp terms.
"The severe hunger situation in Gaza has now escalated to a new, devastating level... Now Israel needs to take its damned responsibility and let in help from Sweden," says Dousa in a written comment.
"The trucks standing outside the gates need to be let in immediately, the safety of aid workers ensured, and the extensive forced displacement of the civilian population stopped immediately," he continues.
