GAZA urgently needs more aid to avoid widespread famine and disease among its desperate population, the heads of three major United Nations agencies warned today.

They spoke out a day after demonstrations across the world saw thousands of people march in support of either the Palestinians or Israel. 

Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, sparked by the resistance group’s surprise cross-border attack on October 7, has prompted unprecedented destruction in the tiny coastal enclave and triggered a humanitarian catastrophe that has displaced most of Gaza's population of 2.3 million people and pushed more than a quarter into starvation, according to the UN.