Tuesday's report, authored by eight international aid organizations, listed 19 measures of compliance with the US demands. It said Israel has failed to comply with 15 and only partially complied with four.

"Israel not only failed to meet the US criteria that would indicate support to the humanitarian response, but concurrently took actions that dramatically worsened the situation on the ground, particularly in Northern Gaza," the report said.

“That situation is even more dire today than a month ago,” it added.

Anera, Care, MedGlobal, Mercy Corps, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, Refugees International, and Save the Children co-signed the report.

The report comes as 2.3 million Palestinians teeter on the verge of starvation amid a brutal Israeli blockade on the entry of food, water, and medicine to the strip since October 2023.

The near-famine situation has reached critical levels in northern Gaza as Israel has totally blocked all aid coming to the area since late September.

Israel's genocidal war on Gaza has killed over 43,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 100,000, mostly women and children.

Moreover, the Israeli bombardment has destroyed most of the strip's residential units and homes, internally displacing 90 percent of the population, often multiple times.

After the report was published, the Israeli army announced opening a fifth crossing Tuesday close to the city of Deir Al-Balah in Gaza.

The crossing would allow for the delivery of some supplies to the territory's central and southern regions.

In October, the Biden administration called on Israel to “surge” more food and other emergency aid into the Palestinian territory, giving it a 30-day deadline that expires Tuesday.

The US administration warned that failure to comply with that could trigger US laws requiring it to scale back military support to Tel Aviv.

The US has bankrolled the Israeli wars in Gaza and Lebanon with an additional $18 billion in military aid since October 2023.

A 13 October letter signed by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called on Israel to, among other things, allow a minimum of 350 truckloads of goods to enter Gaza each day; open a fifth crossing into the besieged territory; allow people in Israeli-imposed coastal tent camps to move inland before the winter; and ensure access for aid groups to hard-hit starving northern Gaza.

It also called on Israel to halt legislation that would hinder the operations of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA. 

According to available data, aid plummeted to Gaza in October when just 34,000 tons of food entered, or less than half the previous month.

UN agencies say even less actually gets through because Israeli restrictions make it difficult to collect and distribute aid on the Gaza side.

On average, 57 trucks entered Gaza daily in October, according to Israeli figures, and 81 per day in the first week of November.

However, the UN put the number lower, at 37 trucks daily since the beginning of October.

Displaced Palestinian children eat bread dipped in lentil soup in front of a tent at the al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. AFP