Gaza City, July 25 -- One in five children in Gaza City is malnourished and cases are increasing every day, the UN's Palestinian refugee agency (Unrwa) said.

In a statement issued today, Unrwa Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini cited a colleague telling him: "People in Gaza are neither dead nor alive, they are walking corpses."

More than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups have also warned of mass starvation - pressing for governments to take action, reports BBC News.

On other hand, Israel, which controls the entry of all supplies into Gaza, refuted the claim of a siege in the territory and instead, blamed Hamas for any cases of malnutrition.

The UN, however, has warned that the level of aid getting into Ga...