<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">The Gaza Strip is grappling with catastrophic hunger amid ongoing Israeli attacks, the UN Palestinian refugee agency said Thursday.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>'"Every day is a struggle for survival, finding food and finding water,” Thomas White, director of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, said in a statement.</div><div><br></div><div>White warned that “40% of the population are now at risk of famine.”</div><div><br></div><div>“The reality is, we need more aid. The only remaining hope is a humanitarian cease-fire,” he added.</div><div><br></div><div>Israel has launched relentless air and ground attacks on the Gaza Strip in retaliation for a cross-border attack by Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 21,110 Palestinians have since been killed and 55,243 others injured, according to local health authorities, while nearly 1,200 Israelis are believed to have been killed in the Hamas attack.</div><div><br></div><div>The Israeli onslaught has left Gaza in ruins, with 60% of the enclave's infrastructure damaged or destroyed and nearly 2 million people displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water and medicines. According to Anadolu Agency reports&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>