Immediate evacuation orders issued by Israel’s military in Gaza have so far affected some 250,000 people this month, while the amount of food aid entering the south of the battered and besieged enclave in July was the lowest in 10 months, Al Jazeera reports according to the UN.

Acute child malnutrition more than doubled in southern Gaza last month and is now four times higher in the north of the Strip compared with rates of diagnosed child malnutrition cases in May.

Civilian casualties are also mounting — along with destruction of housing, key infrastructure and population displacements — particularly in southern Khan Younis and central Deir el-Balah, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reports.