United Nations support businesses have been demanding that the Israeli authorities do extra to guard support staff within the Gaza Strip and be sure that help reaches those that want it, Stéphane Dujarric, a U.N. spokesman, mentioned on Tuesday.

The businesses are struggling to ship meals and different fundamental requirements. A report from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, or I.P.C., a partnership of U.N. our bodies and reduction businesses, concluded on Tuesday that Gaza was at excessive threat of famine. It additionally discovered that just about 500,000 folks there, nearly 1 / 4 of the inhabitants, confronted hunger.

On Monday, a high-ranking U.N. safety official contacted the Israeli company overseeing support to Gaza to press for extra protections for support staff, Mr. Dujarric mentioned, including {that a} letter this month to the company from the U.N.’s humanitarian coordinator had made related factors.

Israeli authorities have resisted blame. On social media on Tuesday, in a publish directed on the U.N.’s World Meals Program, the Israeli company overseeing support in Gaza displayed a photo of provides that it mentioned had been ready at an offloading space. “Cease making excuses and begin enjoying your position as a humanitarian meals group and the top of the logistic cluster,” it mentioned.

Monday’s I.P.C. report discovered that the quantity of meals reaching northern Gaza had elevated in current months, but it surely underscored the dire circumstances folks within the enclave had been dealing with and the necessity for rather more support to be delivered.

Support teams say they worry for the security of their staff. The U.N.’s World Meals Program suspended deliveries of help from the U.S.-built pier off the coast of Gaza this month after it mentioned that its warehouses had been struck in an Israeli hostage rescue mission that killed scores of Palestinians, together with girls and youngsters.

Final week the U.N. mentioned that Gaza had develop into the most dangerous place in the world for support staff. About 250 support staff have been killed because the Hamas-led assault on Oct. 7 set off this warfare, the U.N. mentioned. That determine contains almost 200 who labored for UNRWA, the principle U.N. company for Palestinians.

That short-term suspension of deliveries from the pier has left support sitting ever since and prompted considerations that the U.N. would possibly halt different operations.

Mr. Dujarric famous the hazards to assist staff and mentioned that humanitarian operations had repeatedly been focused, pointing to Israeli strikes on hospitals and different areas that had been imagined to be “de-conflicted.” The Israeli navy mentioned these places had been being utilized by Hamas militants.

“The dangers, frankly, have gotten more and more insupportable,” Mr. Dujarric mentioned. He added that the necessity to assist tens of millions of Palestinian civilians depending on humanitarian support to outlive was a precedence and that the U.N. assessed the safety state of affairs each day to attempt to function safely.

Juliette Touma, a spokeswoman for UNRWA, mentioned that the humanitarian operation in Gaza had develop into “completely unnecessarily some of the cumbersome and complicated on the planet proper now.”