KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip (AP) — A mother pressed a final kiss to what remained of her five-month-old daughter and wept. Esraa Abu Halib’s baby now weighed less than when she was born.

The past few months have pushed Gaza to a new level of distress. The World Food Program, part of the United Nations, said this week that the crisis in Gaza had reached “astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row.”

Secretary-General of the United Nations António Guterres described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as a moral crisis that challenges the global conscience. Follow for live updates.

Almost one in three people in Gaza are going days without eating, the UN's food aid programme has warned. "Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment," the World Food Programme (WFP) said in a statement to news agency AFP.

Naeema, a 30-year-old Palestinian mother, carried her malnourished 2-year-old son, Yazan, in their damaged home in the Al-Shati refugee camp on July 23. The World Food Programme said nearly one in three people in Gaza are not eating for days at a stretch and "thousands" were "on the verge of catastrophic hunger."

According to the UN’s World Food programme nearly 100,000 women and children alone are suffering from severe acute malnutrition in Gaza. CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta details the medical reality of these life-threatening conditions.

Ten Palestinians died due to famine and malnutrition over the past 24 hours, according to a statement from the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health on Wednesday. More than 70 children have died from malnutrition in Gaza since the beginning of the year, according to the WHO.

Militants “didn’t want to make” a deal, Trump said after U.S., Israeli ceasefire negotiators pulled back from talks.

“At UNRWA, we have the equivalent of 6,000 trucks in Jordan & Egypt waiting for the green light to get into Gaza,” said agency chief Philippe Lazzarini. He added that “airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation. They are expensive ...