Humanitarian aid must be allowed into Gaza, where life is becoming “impossible” for the population, the Doctors Without Borders (MSF) charity urged, AFP reports.

The organisation’s president for France, Isabelle Defourny, told AFP on her return from southern Gaza that aid deliveries needed to be “sufficient to address the emergencies” suffered by the civilian population there.

“We have said again and again that the Gaza Strip has become uninhabitable, but now it’s actually becoming impossible to live there,” she said. More than two million people were living “virtually outdoors”, she said, with only plastic sheets for cover.

“As cold weather approaches, this is going to go very badly,” she said, adding that current humanitarian aid had been “in no way sufficient”.