The Coordinator of the Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) confirmed that five-year-old Osama al-Rakab, who was cited in international media as proof of famine, suffers from a severe genetic illness unrelated to the war and is currently receiving treatment in Italy.

The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in Gaza,” UN-backed food security experts said on Tuesday, in a call to action amid unrelenting conflict, mass displacement and the near-total collapse of essential services in the war-battered enclave.

Aid agencies say many Gazans are hungry and malnourished. Amal Nassar says her family is among them, and price gouging is making things worse.

President Trump on Monday signaled a break with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where Trump acknowledged there was “real starvation”

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu denied widespread reports of starvation in Gaza on Sunday and blamed Hamas for stealing aid. "What a bold-faced lie. There is no policy of starvations in Gaza, and there is no starvation in Gaza,

World aid groups have criticized Israel for the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Israel has denied the accusations.

Anthony Albanese has rubbished claims from the Israeli embassy on Monday that there was no starvation in Gaza.