The head of the UN World Food Programme, Cindy McCain, said Gaza is “at a breaking point” after a visit to Khan Younis and Deir al-Balah, where she saw severely malnourished children and flattened neighborhoods. The United Nations formally declared a famine in the territory on 22 August, and McCain urged an immediate scale-up of relief, warning that desperation is soaring. The WFP is currently able to move about 100 aid trucks into the enclave each day, well below the 600 that entered during last year’s cease-fire and are still considered necessary to avert mass starvation. An IPC assessment estimates roughly 514,000 people—nearly a quarter of Gaza’s population—are already experiencing famine conditions and says the crisis could spread to central and southern districts by the end of September. Humanitarian groups report harrowing conditions on the ground. Save the Children’s president told the UN Security Council that many Gaza children are now too weak to speak or even cry, while clinics remain eerily silent as staff treat acute malnutrition. McCain added that reviving the WFP’s network of 200 distribution points, community kitchens and bakeries is urgent to keep the most vulnerable alive. Separately, UN rights experts expressed alarm at alleged enforced disappearances of Palestinians seeking food at distribution sites run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and called on Israel to end what they termed a “heinous crime.” McCain said she pressed Israeli officials for unfettered access, safe corridors and faster clearances, stressing that the modest upswing in deliveries “is not nearly enough” to halt the spread of famine.