Famine fears and the new death toll are grim milestones in a conflict that began almost two years ago when Hamas attacked Israel.

The U.N.-developed panel, known as IPC, said conditions “worsened dramatically” in recent months, with food consumption at its lowest level since the conflict began.

The Israeli military agency responsible for humanitarian affairs in Gaza said that Egypt, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates had airdropped packages in recent days. Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain confirmed that it had also airdropped supplies into Gaza this week.

Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 60,000 Palestinians, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry. Its count doesn’t distinguish between fighters and civilians. The ministry operates under the Hamas government. The U.N. and other international organizations see it as the most reliable source of data on casualties.

At least 46 Palestinians were killed in Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip since Tuesday evening, according to local hospitals

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — The “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,” the leading international authority on food crises said in a new alert Tuesday, predicting “widespread death” without immediate action.

President Trump spoke at a meeting in Scotland with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer about seeing images of starvation in Gaza amid Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's denial of the dire situation on Sunday.

Senators said the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, created in February with backing from the Trump administration, has “failed to address the deepening humanitarian crisis and contributed to an unacceptable and mounting civilian death toll around the organization’s sites.