Today, the de facto leader of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salan, accused Israel

of committing genocide in Gaza and called for Israel to respect the sovereignty of, quote,

sisterly Iran.

It marked the strongest criticism of Israel by the man known as MBS since the Hamas October

7th attack and sign signal to turn away from Saudi

normalization with Jerusalem. All this as a UN-affiliated organization is warning of, quote, imminent famine

in Gaza. Here's Nick Schiffin with more. This weekend, an independent famine review committee

affiliated with the United Nations declared that across northern Gaza, starvation, malnutrition, and excess mortality are, quote,

rapidly increasing, and famine thresholds may have already been crossed or else will be

in the near future.

Little to no aid has reached northern Gaza over the last month since Israel

launched a new operation and called on all residents to leave, St. Hamas had regrouped. Jan Eglin,

a longtime diplomat and humanitarian, who is the Secretary General of the Norwegian Refugee Council,

recently traveled to Gaza and joins me now from Amman. Jan Eg, thank you very much. Welcome back to the NewsHour.

Let me first show you the areas of northern Gaza that we're going to be talking about.

The Israeli operation last month is focused on Jabalya, Bait Lahia, Bait Hanoon.

You were only able to travel as far north as Gaza City.

What did you see?

Well, Gaza City looks like Stalingrad after the Second World War.

It was much worse than I feared.

I'm really shattered by seeing how humanity has been trampled upon through Gaza.

More than 2 million people are trapped in one of the

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