A leading organization monitoring the world’s food crises has withdrawn a report warning of impending famine in the northern Gaza Strip, the Associated Press reported.

The agency added that the United States demanded that the organization withdraw the report in which it warned of famine in northern Gaza, after public criticism of the report by the US ambassador to Israel.

The Associated Press reported that the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) confirmed it had asked Famine Watch to withdraw its escalating warning.

Famine has been exacerbated in most areas of the Gaza Strip by the Israeli blockade, particularly in the north following the continued extermination and starvation to force Palestinians to flee south.

On Tuesday, the government media office in the Gaza Strip said that Israel was deliberately killing humanitarian aid personnel arriving in the Strip and providing full care to those who looted it, as part of a systematic plan aimed at starving the population.