A senior Hamas official has condemned US President Donald Trump's remarks about the absence of famine in Gaza.

The Yemeni Armed Forces have announced plans to escalate military operations against Zionist regime in response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

The Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has denounced Zionist regime's limited airdrops of aid over parts of the Gaza Strip as a “deceptive” ploy aimed at managing starvation in the besieged territory, rather than ending it.

Five Palestinian citizens, including two children, died of starvation and malnutrition in the Gaza Strip within the past 24 hours, according to a statement released by Gaza’s health ministry on Saturday evening.

The commissioner-general of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) says the airdrops of humanitarian aid into Gaza are an ineffective and perilous diversion from the pressing necessity to lift the siege and facilitate the opening of land crossings.

Hamas has vehemently denounced Zionist regime’s forces’ hijacking of an aid vessel carrying nearly two dozen activists towards the war-hit Gaza Strip, which is teetering on the edge of famine.

The Zionist regime’s naval forces have hijacked a British-flagged aid ship as it was heading towards the Gaza Strip so it can break the regime’s near-total siege of the territory.

 “Friday of Anger and Victory” march held across the country after the Friday prayers to condemn the Zionist regime’s atrocities in Gaza and express solidarity with the oppressed people of the Palestinian enclave.

Portuguese Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel says his country is open to recognizing the State of Palestine, after France announced that it will recognize Palestine in the coming months.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians performed the Friday prayer at the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds despite the Zionist regime’s security measures that restricted their access to the holy site.

A joint statement from the United Kingdom, France, and Germany affirmed that the time has come to end the war in Gaza and that the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding there must stop immediately.

Iraq’s prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has decried the catastrophic humanitarian conditions in Gaza, particularly the deepening famine, calling on Arab and Muslim nations to take proper measures to end the appalling tragedy.