People in Gaza are only eating an average of one meal per day as the Israeli army is blocking 83 per cent of the food aid needed from reaching the besieged enclave, a group of 15 aid organisations have said in a joint statement.

According to Al Jazeera, the organisations said the amount of aid being blocked by Israel has increased substantially from 2023, when just 34pc of food aid was being blocked.

Amjad Al Shawa, the director of the Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) said in the statement that 100pc of Gaza’s population is now dependent on aid and the shortages meant people were starving.

“We are overwhelmed [with] these needs and [these] urgent requirements”, Al Shawa said.

The aid organisations that released the statement included Save the Children, ActionAid, Christian Aid and Islamic Relief.