Palestinian activist Mansour Shouman told Al Jazeera about the worsening humanitarian situation in Gaza as Israel presses ahead with its war of genocide.

“In the north there is famine right now. I had a friend text me saying, ‘We are eating the extract of the leaves of the trees just in order to provide us with nutrients,’” Shouman, who was in Gaza until March, said.

“All they have up north is flour that is coming in through the very little residual aid that has been left off the American pier that is coming through land crossing points in the north.”

Shouman called for the land crossings to open as quickly as possible to allow the thousands of trucks full of aid from people who donated to organizations worldwide to enter.