‘Famine imminent’ in northern Gaza as 70% face ‘catastrophic hunger’

In December, the IPC estimated that a quarter of Gaza’s overall population was starving

Palestinians rush to collect the humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza City, Gaza Strip on March 17 (Mohammed Hajjar/AP)

Israel has been accused of using starvation as a "weapon of war" as the World food Programme said famine is now "imminent" in Gaza.

EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell made the accusation at the opening of a conference on humanitarian aid for Gaza in Brussels.