France, Aug. 12 -- With hunger and disease spreading across Gaza and hospitals short of crucial supplies, an aid worker in Gaza City has told RFI of life under siege- describing how families are packed into shrinking safe zones, queuing for water for hours and struggling to find food and medicine as the conflict pushes the territory to the brink.

The catastrophe in Gaza shows no sign of ending. Under relentless bombardment and gripped by hunger, the territory is close to collapse. Amid the devastation, humanitarian workers - most of them ordinary civilians - fight each day to stay alive.

RFI spoke with Riyad, a Palestinian from Gaza City and a member of the NGO Secours Islamique France (SIF), which provides emergency aid and long-term s...