By Olivia Le Poidevin and Jennifer Rigby

GENEVA (Reuters) -A global hunger monitor said on Tuesday that a famine scenario was unfolding in the Gaza Strip, with malnutrition soaring, children under five dying of hunger-related causes and humanitarian access severely restricted.

We examine what needs to be done to reverse the crisis.

WHAT IS BEING SENT IN AND HOW?

Israel said on Sunday it would halt military operations for 10 hours a day in parts of Gaza and designate secure routes for convoys delivering food and medicine between 6 a.m. and 11 p.m.

The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, says 500-600 trucks a day are needed to prevent more of the 2.1 million population people starving.

Since the announcement, over 100 truckloads of aid have been transported into Gaza, according to the U.N.

The World Food Program said that only half of the 100 trucks it hoped to get in daily had been allowed in, and it had not been able to reopen the lifeline bakeries and community kitchens that closed in May due to shortages.

TREATING ACUTE MALNUTRITION

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