Save the Children has condemned the deaths of 100 children due to Israel-imposed starvation in Gaza, calling it “a devastating milestone that shames the world”.

“What kind of a world have we built to let at least 100 children be starved to death while the food, water and medical supplies to save them wait just miles away at a border crossing?” Ahmad Alhendawi, the charity’s regional director for the Middle East, North Africa and Eastern Europe, said in a statement.

“Children in Gaza are being starved by design by Israeli authorities. This was a wholly predictable and avoidable tragedy that humanitarian organisations have been warning about for months.”

Save the Children’s UK chapter assailed Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Foreign Secretary David Lammy. “How can you continue to be complicit in these monstrosities?” it said.

“The majority of the UK public think we should stop licensing the export of F-35 parts to Israel,” it highlighted.