As starvation deepens across the Gaza Strip, international organizations and UN agencies are raising urgent alarms about an impending famine.

The statement issued late Saturday came after increasing accounts of starvation-related deaths in Gaza following months of experts’ warnings of famine.

Humanitarian aid agencies are warning that their staff inside Gaza are starving alongside the civilians they are trying to help

The United Nations and NGOs are warning of an imminent famine in the Gaza Strip -- a designation based on strict criteria and scientific evidence. - NGOs and the WHO concede that gathering the evidence required for a famine declaration is extremely difficult.

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.

Food markets are empty. Human waste is piling up. Illness is spreading. And people in Gaza are “collapsing on the streets from hunger and dehydration,” humanitarian organizations warn.

Israel killed at least 53 people in Gaza overnight and into Saturday, Palestinian health officials and the ambulance service reported.

Will I be able to find a means of transportation, or not?” He describes feeling weak and dizzy every day.The starvation forecast from over a year ago has now taken hold in Gaza. The U.N. World Food Programme this week said 100,