A small community of displaced Palestinians in southern Gaza’s Rafah break their fast in a mass iftar, the evening meal during Ramadan.

The usual celebrations during the Muslim holy month are absent across Palestine’s Gaza amid Israel’s brutal onslaught. Palestinians are facing acute shortages of food and clean water due to Israel obstructing international aid from entering the besieged enclave.

While a scant amount of aid trucks are sustaining the population in Rafah, Israeli authorities have informed UNRWA they will no longer allow lifesaving deliveries to be made to northern Gaza, where Palestinians are now facing catastrophic levels of hunger.

Palestinian authorities say Israel’s decision to bar aid “will deepen the famine and murders through starvation and thirst.”