Over 250 lorries carrying aid entered the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, according to the Israeli military, three days after it began increasing the flow of supplies into the embattled Palestinian territory amid an outcry over reports of imminent famine.

Women and children make up roughly half the total, which doesn't include people who've died of hunger-related illness.

Jordanian and Emirati planes have dropped another 52 pallets of food over the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Tuesday. Egyptian planes also took part in the airdrops for the first time since Sunday,

The Gaza Strip is experiencing famine conditions, a group of global food-insecurity experts said, the most dire assessment of the enclave’s deepening hunger crisis since the war began.“The worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip,

Friedrich Merz confirms that 2 German aircraft may begin airdropping humanitarian aid from Jordan into Gaza as early as Wednesday - Anadolu Ajansı

Humanitarian aid was dropped into the Gaza Strip from the air for the second consecutive day on Monday, with some 20 pallets of food parachuted into the blockaded coastal area from Jordanian and Emirati aircraft,

Israel ended a truce in Gaza in March, hoping to break Hamas. The move has heightened suffering for Palestinians but achieved few, if any, Israeli goals.

The ministry's statement on Tuesday did not say how many were civilians or militants, but it has said women and children make up around half the dead.

The UK is set to join Jordan and the United Arab Emirates in airdropping aid into Gaza as starvation and malnutrition have reached perilous levels in the war-torn strip. Following pressure from the international community,