High ranking officials for United Nations agencies have warned the UN Security Council that thousands of civilians in the Gaza Strip are starving to death. “At least 576,000 people in Gaza, one quarter of the population, [are] one step away from famine,” Ramesh Rajasingham, director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) told the UN’s most powerful body on Tuesday. Rajasingham added that one in six children under the age of two in northern Gaza is “suffering from acute malnutrition” while nearly the entire population of the territory has to rely on “woefully inade…