Famine has struck an area of Gaza and will likely spread over the next month, a global hunger monitor determined on Friday.

Israel has systematically obstructed food entering Gaza, aid agencies say, as a UN-backed body confirms a famine.

At least half a million residents in Gaza City and its surrounding areas are officially living under famine, according to a hunger monitoring group that the United Nations and international aid groups rely on for assessing global crises.

Displaced Palestinian women said they’ve been living in a famine for “two years” after food security authority IPC announces famine in Gaza for the first time.