Israel is set to permit parachute aid deliveries to the blockaded Gaza Strip.
People in Gaza have been gripped by hunger and disease during Israel’s military offensive following the October 7 Hamas attacks.
As images of skeletal children and desperate parents have emerged, the World Health Organisation has warned of ‘man-made mass starvation,’ which Israel has denied.
Now the IDF, the Israeli military, is reportedly allowing foreign aid to be dropped into Gaza on parachutes.
A senior IDF official told Sky News: ‘Starting today, Israel will allow foreign countries to parachute aid into Gaza.
‘Starting this afternoon, the WCK organisation began reactivating its kitchens.’
The WCK, the World Central Kitchen aid charity, was one of many organisations forced to pull out of Gaza after its workers were killed in an Israeli airstrike last year.
One in five children in Gaza City is suffering from malnourishment, according to the UN aid agency.
At least 32 Palestinians trying to get food from distribution hubs have been killed by Israeli soldiers, Gaza’s health ministry has said.
Witnesses of a recent incident accused the troops of firing at the crowd ‘indiscriminately.’
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