United Nations agencies intensified warnings on Monday that Gaza faces imminent famine, reiterating calls for an immediate cease-fire and unimpeded humanitarian access. UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said “Gaza is dying,” noting the agency has thousands of trucks waiting at the border with enough supplies—estimated at 180 million meals—to feed the enclave’s entire population for a month, along with critical medicines and shelter materials. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs cautioned that families are risking their lives to obtain food and that preventing relief convoys from entering the territory “means killing more lives.” The World Food Programme said it is ready to scale up operations but needs a larger number of daily truck clearances, safe and open corridors, and reliable communications to coordinate deliveries. Israel’s foreign ministry countered that “tens of millions of meals” are already flowing into Gaza each day through a mission led by the humanitarian group GHF Updates, asserting that aid reaches civilians and not Hamas. Hamas rejected the current distribution arrangements, calling the aid crossings “death traps” under U.S. cover and demanding a new UN-supervised mechanism while urging Arab and Islamic states to intervene. The humanitarian alarm comes against the backdrop of a nine-month Israeli offensive that Palestinian health officials say has killed more than 57,500 people, including about 17,000 children. Diplomatic efforts for a renewed cease-fire have so far failed to secure a pause that would allow large-scale relief operations.