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Over the past week or so the rhetorical pressure on Israel to alleviate the suffering in Gaza has reached new heights as images of emaciated malnourished children have brought home the extent of the humanitarian crisis in the territory.
More than a hundred aid agencies and more than two dozen governments have written impassioned statements calling on Israel to scrap its current method of getting aid to civilians which has seen hundreds of people killed near distribution sites and warning of mass starvation.
in the territory.
France has also become the first G7 country to say it will recognize a Palestinian state.
Well today the Israeli government has bowed to that pressure or at least acknowledged it after insisting that there was enough aid in Gaza and that Hamas was the reason it wasn't reaching those who need it.
Israel has begun to make aid drops and agreed to what the IDF is calling a tactical pause in military activity in three parts of Gaza to set up designated humanitarian corridors for UN convoys.
Israel says it has taken the decision to refute the false claim of deliberate starvation in the Strip.
Antoine Renard is the Chief of Operations in Gaza for the UN World Food Programme.
What will remain a challenge for us is that the volume that we need to bring,
given the fact that there's been such a long closure,
is actually the massive amount of people that are so desperate that they're rushing on convoy.
So if we manage just the last week, to bring around 4,200 metric tons of food within Gaza,
it's again not enough because we're supposed to actually reach 62,000 metric tons every month.
So what will be still a challenge for us is actually to manage to go beyond the wave of people that are rushing on any convoy coming
because they're so desperate and to restart our proper distribution system within Gaza.
Well,
it's reported that trucks carrying aid have entered the Gaza border zone from Egypt in the past few hours and a separate aid convoy has left from Jordan.
Meanwhile,
there have been reports of an Israeli airstrike on Gaza City and of people being shot in the territory