A 5-month-old Palestinian baby suffering from severe malnutrition died in her mother’s arms in Gaza Friday, one of the latest victims of a starvation crisis that has generated international outrage but continues to deepen.

A formal famine declaration, which is rare, requires the kind of data that the lack of access to Gaza and mobility within has largely denied.

The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip, the leading international authority on food crisis said in a new alert Tuesday as aid workers urge immediate action to

A "worst-case scenario of famine" is playing out in Gaza as access to food plummets to unprecedented lows, according to the IPC global hunger authority.

The United Nations has condemned airdrops on Gaza, amid the rapidly deteriorating starvation crisis as Israel continues to block aid into the territory. Hunger has reached catastrophic levels, and nearly half a million are now people facing famine-like conditions, as a third of the Gaza population are being forced to go without food.

Malnutrition is on a dangerous trajectory in the Gaza Strip, marked by a spike in deaths in July.

U.N. officials say many people in Gaza are experiencing "famine-like conditions." Health experts who have studied past famines warn that the fallout can reverberate across generations.

Israel has paused fighting in parts of the area to allow for some aid to enter, as starvation and malnutrition continue to ravage Gaza. UNICEF Communication Specialist Joe English joins Ana Cabrera to react to Israel’s pause in fighting and to discuss the aid UNICEF is providing to the Palestinian people.