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The World Health Organization has warned malnutrition has reached "alarming levels" in Gaza with rates on a "dangerous trajectory" after aid air drops resumed to the Strip.

Israel announced a series of new aid measures, after more than 100 international aid organisations and human rights groups warned of mass starvation in Gaza earlier this week.

Israel said on Sunday it would halt military operations for 10 hours a day in parts of Gaza and allow aid corridors, to "refute the false claim of intentional starvation".

Jordan, the UAE and Egypt said they delivered aid into Gaza by land and air - with Jordan and the UAE saying it delivered "25 tonnes of food aid and essential humanitarian supplies" by aid air drops.

People in Gaza have reacted and said, although the aid is welcome, it must be the beginning of a broader, lasting solution to the deepening crisis.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry has said at least 133 people have died from malnutrition since the war began.

Aid agencies have also reacted, with Médecins Sans Frontières saying the pause in fighting and aid drop is "not enough". The UN's World Food Programme said it welcomes Israel's pause in military action in some parts of Gaza, but there needs to be a "surge" in aid.

We are pausing our live coverage but you can stay across this story on BBC News.

• Jordan and UAE drop aid in Gaza as Israel begins 'tactical pause'
• Starmer to raise Gaza situation in Trump meeting
• Jeremy Bowen: Israel's aid measures a gesture to allies horrified by Gaza starvation

Earlier today, aid agencies reacted to the resumption of aid air drops to Gaza. Here's a brief overview of their comments:

Médecins Sans Frontières said the pause in fighting and aid drop is "not enough" and there should be a distribution list "so that everybody knows that they're going to receive their own parcel".

The UN's World Food Programme said it welcomes Israel's pause in military action in some parts of Gaza, but it says there needs to be a "surge" in aid to reach hungry people without further delay.

Meanwhile the aid boost is an "opportunity to reverse this catastrophe" said Unicef, but there need to be more humanitarian corridors to allow truck convoys move around.

Unrwa spokesman Juliette Touma said the pause is a start, but she condemned aid drops from the air as "expensive and dangerous". It would be better to drive trucks across the border, she told the BBC.

She added that she doesn't see aid distribution working without Unrwa's help as "we have the network, the reach and the trust of the community."

IDF video shows aid dropped into area declared “dangerous combat zone”published at 19:28 British Summer Time 27 July

19:28 BST 27 July

By Benedict Garman

The Israeli military has shared videos this morning which it says show “the delivery of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip”.

But according to its own map, this morning, the seven aid packages seen falling to the ground in the videos landed nearly 1km (0.6 miles) into a part of North Gaza they have explicitly declared a “dangerous combat zone”.

The IDF map - which you can see below - was released alongside an announcement about a humanitarian pause in military operations in specific areas. It features areas shaded red and white.

The white areas are those where military activities should be suspended at certain hours of the day. But the Israeli military explicitly warn that people should “refrain from returning to the areas marked in red”, and that “the fighting will not stop except in the areas identified”.

Air drops, by nature, are imprecise, with aid agencies previously telling the BBC that drop zones should ideally be large, open areas no smaller than a football field.

We’ve approached the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) to ask if this was a case of inaccuracy, or if it is intentionally dropping aid into areas it has instructed people not to enter. The IDF said it has "no comment on the matter".

Image source, Israel Defense Forces

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Earlier today the UK's Foreign Secretary David Lammy said Israel's "temporary pause" of its military operations in parts of Gaza to let aid in is "essential" - but the measure alone can't "alleviate the suffering" of Gaza's population.

"We need a ceasefire that can end the war, for hostages to be released and aid to enter Gaza by land unhindered," he said in a statement.

He added that, while air drops will help, land routes are "the only viable and sustainable means of providing aid into Gaza".

"These measures must be fully implemented and further barriers on aid removed. The world is watching."

Earlier this week, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced the UK was working with Jordan on plans to drop aid into Gaza by air.

BBC News understands RAF aircraft were not involved in today’s air drops and there was no UK aid on board the Jordanian and UAE aircraft.

The IDF has responded to earlier reports that nine Palestinians were killed and 54 wounded while gathering at an aid convoy route in central Gaza.

The spokesman of al-Awda Hospital in Nuseirat says that the victims were brought in following an Israeli shooting which hit civilians waiting for humanitarian assistance.

Local sources said the incident happened near the Netzarim Corridor, and that many people had gathered there earlier in the day in anticipation of incoming aid convoys.

In response, the IDF told the BBC " earlier today, a gathering of suspects was identified adjacent to IDF troops operating in central Gaza, endangering them".

"The troops operated to prevent the suspects from approaching them and fired warning shots. The IDF is not aware of any casualties as a result of the warning shots," it says.

The IDF statement continues that "warning shots were not fired at the aid distribution site, but at a distance of hundreds of meters away from it, prior to its opening hours".

"The IDF continues to operate in order to facilitate the distribution of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip and to enable passage to the distribution sites via designated and secure routes," it adds.

Malnutrition rates are on a "dangerous trajectory" in the Gaza Strip "marked by a spike in deaths in July", according to a fresh warning from the World Health Organization (WHO).

The agency says of the 74 malnutrition-related deaths in 2025, 65 occurred in July - including 24 children under five.

Most of the people were "declared dead on arrival at health facilities or died shortly after," the agency adds, before calling the crisis "entirely preventable".

"Deliberate blocking and delay of large-scale food, health, and humanitarian aid has cost many lives," the agency says.

WHO also warns that families are being "forced to risk their lives" for aid and says more than 1,060 people have been killed and 7,200 injured while trying to access food.

The agency calls for "urgent, sustained efforts to flood the Gaza Strip" with food, medicine and therapeutic supplies, saying the flow of aid must be "unhindered".

"WHO also calls for the release of our detained colleague, the release of hostages, and for an immediate ceasefire," it adds.

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US President Donald Trump has just answered questions about the situation in Gaza, ahead of trade talks in Scotland with the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.

Here's a glance at what he had to say:

On aid Trump is asked if Israel should do more to allow aid into Gaza. Trump said the US had given $60m to Gaza for food, but added that "nobody acknowledged it". He said "you really want at least to have someone say thank you" for the contribution.

The US president then moved on to address the Israeli hostages remaining in Gaza, recalling how he has met with families desperate for their loved ones' bodies to be returned.

Trump also mentioned conversations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and said they discussed Iran. He adds the US will do "more aid" for Gaza but he wants other countries to do so too, saying it is an "international problem".

Asked about images of starving children in Gaza, Trump said they were "terrible", and suggested "that whole place is a mess" where people are "stealing everything".

As for what's next for the region, Trump suggested "Israel's going to have to make a decision", adding: "I know what I’d do but I don’t think it’s appropriate that I say".

Trump was also asked whether he would respond to Keir Starmer's calls for Trump to consider ceasefire talks again. He says the pair are meeting about a "lot of things" before praising the US-UK trade deal and confirming they will be discussing Israel.

Video appears to show IDF struck apartment in Gaza City after pause beganpublished at 17:42 British Summer Time 27 July

17:42 BST 27 July

By Benedict Garman

Earlier we reported that an Israeli strike appears to have hit a residential apartment in Gaza City shortly after the Israeli military announced a humanitarian pause in the area.

The BBC approached the IDF for comment on the strike and provided the military with coordinates of where it occurred. The IDF says that it checked the coordinates and was not aware of a strike in the area, or in the surrounding area.

We’ve since verified two videos of the aftermath of this apparent strike, as well as a photograph showing damage to the apartment building.

One video is filmed outside and shows people gathered in the road and bodies being pulled from rubble. A man runs from the scene carrying a little girl covered in blood. A motionless body is loaded into a wheelbarrow and rushed away.

A separate video is filmed from a blood-stained room on one of the upper floors inside - identifiable from the view out of the window - while a photo shows scorch marks surrounding a large hole in the wall and a broken window.

By matching the visible buildings and trees to satellite imagery, we’ve geolocated the imagery to Midhat Al Wahidy Street in Al-Rimal district, which confirms the strike happened in an area where the military pause was meant to be underway.

The area is home to thousands of displaced people.

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Rushdi Abualouf
BBC News Gaza correspondent in Istanbul

Medical experts in Gaza say malnutrition is becoming widespread especially among children and those with specific dietary needs.

One of the most affected groups are those with gluten intolerance, who are unable to consume wheat-based products like bread, which now make up the bulk of available food.

“My wife and one of my five children have coeliac disease,” says Rami Taha, who lives in central Gaza. “Before the war, I used to buy them gluten-free products. Now, there is nothing. I have to take them to the hospital every few days just to get IV fluids.”

Many Gazans say they worry that international attention will fade once a few symbolic aid deliveries are made.

“This is not a permanent solution, it’s like giving a painkillers to cancer patient without treating them” says Ahmad Taha, a shopkeeper in northern Gaza.

As efforts to revive broader ceasefire seems faltering, the people of Gaza remain trapped between hope and despair thankful for any aid, but yearning for a lasting peace.

We're beginning to see photos of trucks carrying supplies crossing into the Strip.

Images show chaotic scenes as lorries are surrounded by crowds of Palestinians as they seek aid that are moving into Gaza through humanitarian corridors.

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Israel's aid measures a gesture to allies horrified by Gaza starvationpublished at 16:26 British Summer Time 27 July

16:26 BST 27 July

Jeremy Bowen
International Editor

While Israel continues to insist it is not responsible for the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza and does not impose restrictions on aid entering Gaza, those claims are not accepted by its close allies in Europe, or the United Nations and other agencies active in Gaza.

The new measures might be a tacit admission by the Israelis that they need to do more.

More likely they are a gesture to allies who have issued strong statements blaming Israel for starvation in Gaza.

Israel released grainy footage of a transport plane dropping pallets of aid into Gaza. The IDF said it had delivered seven packages of aid containing flour, sugar and tinned food.

Professionals involved in relief operations regard dropping aid from the sky as a last resort. They use it when any other access is impossible. That's not the case in Gaza. A short drive north is Ashdod, Israel's modern container port. A few more hours away is the Jordanian border, which has been used regularly as a supply line for aid for Gaza.

Gaza was one of the world's most densely populated places before the war when the population of more than two million Palestinians had access to the entire strip. In British terms, the Gaza Strip is slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight. Compared to American cities, it's roughly the size of Philadelphia or Detroit.

Now Israel has forced most of Gaza's people into a tiny area on the southern coast, amounting to around 17% of Gaza's land. Most of them live in densely packed tents. It is not clear if there is even an open space for despatchers high in the sky to aim at.

Pallets of aid dropped by parachute often land far from the people who need it.

Each pallet will be fought over by desperate men trying to get food for their families, and by criminal elements who will want to sell it for profit.

• Read more from Jeremey Bowen about Israel's response to Gaza's aid crisis here

Imad Kudaya is a local journalist in Gaza and from al-Mawasi, in the south of the Strip, he has been telling BBC News about the recent airdrops and the dangers involved for those on the ground.

"Most of those packages that have dropped from the sky - they have fallen in ...places where if you go there you will put yourself in a very big risk.

"Those place are evacuated and under Israeli control - so it is risky."

Imad says there is "good news" from the Egyptian Red Crescent who say that more aid trucks are going to be allowed into the Strip.

We heard a little earlier from Israeli PM Netanyahu about the aid entering Gaza. Let's take a quick look now on how the international community has responded to situation in Gaza today.

• UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy says Israel's "temporary pause" of its military operations in parts of Gaza is "essential", but the measure alone can't "alleviate the suffering" of Gaza's population
• German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says he’s urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call to bring about an immediate ceasefire and allow aid to reach people in Gaza
• Pope Leo XIV has expressed particular concern for the “extremely grave humanitarian situation in Gaza”, where people are “crushed by hunger and continue to be exposed to violence and death”, according to Vatican News, the Holy See’s official news portal
• South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa says at a summit that they “condemn in the strongest terms” what they call the “genocide” committed by Israel against Palestinians, and call on Israel to allow aid to be distributed
• Spanish Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares says the “induced famine in Gaza is a disgrace”, adding that Spain is ready to send “everything necessary to Gaza”, and calls for Israel to allow free passage of aid to the war-torn strip

Aid agencies operating in Gaza say it is hard to distribute aid, even when it is inside the territory.

Last week, Israel said hundreds of trucks worth of aid supplies were already inside the Gaza border and awaiting distribution. But UN aid agencies say they need permission from the Israeli army to use travel routes, for safety reasons.

The above graphic - using data supplied by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - shows the number of times Israel has denied permission for aid trucks to move beyond the border crossings. The red bars show the number of times that permission was denied.

There have been growing warnings of widespread hunger since Israel cut off all supplies to Gaza in March, saying it wanted to put pressure on Hamas to release the hostages.

Israel resumed the aid supply May, launching the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) - staffed by private US contractors - saying it wanted to cut Hamas out of the aid distribution system. But hundreds of people have been killed trying to access food at or near these sites.

UN agencies and NGOs have warned of widespread hunger. The World Health Organisation warns of "mass starvation", while the World Food Programme says one in three people are going for days without eating.

An Israeli government spokesman told the BBC last week the food shortages were "engineered by Hamas."

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Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made his first comments since the military announced a series of measures to boost humanitarian aid into Gaza.

In a video statement, he says that while Israel continues its fighting in Gaza and negotiations with Hamas, the country has got to allow the entry of "minimal" humanitarian supplies.

The prime minister says that Israel has always allowed aid into Gaza, but adds that the UN has blamed his government for the crisis Palestinians are facing.

"There are secure routes. There have always been, but today it's official. There will be no more excuses," the Israeli leader says, during a visit to an air base.

"We will continue to fight and we will continue to act until we achieve all of our war goals - until complete victory."

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Médecins Sans Frontières's (MSF) emergency operations director says news of a pause in fighting in some parts of Gaza is “about time”, but warns new aid measures announced by Israel today are still “not enough” to combat fears of widespread malnutrition in the Strip.

“After five months of starvation, people need to be sure that they are going to be receiving something at the end,” Amande Bazerolle tells the Reuters news agency.

As well as the pause in fighting and humanitarian corridors announced by the IDF, Bazerolle suggests there should be a “distribution list so that everybody knows that they’re going to receive their own parcel”.

And, with the Hamas-run health ministry reporting that over 100 people have already died as a result of malnutrition, Bazerolle warns there will be “life-long consequences” for the health of Gazans.

Despite this, the MSF representative is positive that they’ll now be able to treat more people due to the pause in fighting - which the IDF said earlier will take place for humanitarian purposes from 10:00 to 20:00 (07:00-17:00 GMT).

“With enough supply of therapeutic food, we’re going to be able to treat more people, and we are hoping that during those ten hours per day there will be no operation, and we can move towards those people who are too sick and tired to reach us,” Bazerolle says.

Image source, Reuters

Unicef says it welcomes Israel's announcement that it will implement "most urgently needed humanitarian pauses" to boost aid in Gaza.

"This is an opportunity to begin to reverse this catastrophe and save lives," the UN body says.

Unicef also says that it could do much more if "additional designated humanitarian corridors are created to facilitate the movement of our convoys - as well as commercial trucks, which are essential".

This follows comments from another UN body, the World Food Programme (WFP), which also spoke positively about Israel's pause in military action in parts of Gaza and the creation of humanitarian corridors.

UN emergency relief coordinator Tom Fletcher also welcomed the announcement earlier.

He says he is "in contact with our teams on the ground who will do all we can to reach as many starving people as we can in this window".

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UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk has called on governments around the world to use their leverage and put pressure on Israel to end the war in Gaza.

In a video statement, external released ahead of a conference on Palestine opening in New York tomorrow, he says that every day we see "more destruction, more killings, and the further dehumanization of Palestinians".

He says Israel has "obligations" to ensure that food and lifesaving necessities are provided to the population, and all countries should take "concrete steps" to make sure that happens.

He calls for the delivery of "massive" humanitarian aid to Gaza, as well as an "immediate, permanent ceasefire [and] the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages".

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A little while ago, Jordanian state TV reported that the Royal Jordanian Air Force has been involved in an operation with the United Arab Emirates to drop "25 tonnes of food aid and essential humanitarian supplies" into Gaza.

Two Jordanian C-130 planes and one United Arab Emirate aircraft were involved in the mission and targeted several locations within the Gaza Strip, the report says.

Jordanian state TV adds that the latest delivery of aid brings the total number of Jordanian airdrops since the start of the war in Gaza has reached 127.

• For context, it says additionally, 267 airdrops have been carried out in cooperation with partner nations

Rushdi Abualouf
BBC News Gaza correspondent in Istanbul

Gazans are anxiously awaiting the entry of trucks of food aid in Gaza - but it’s still uncertain when the aid will arrive.

Dozens of empty trucks were seen heading in convoys toward three different locations: Zikim crossing in northern Gaza, Kissufim crossing in central Gaza, and the Kerem Shalom crossing in the far south-east of the Strip.

Meanwhile, local markets witnessed increased activity as merchants rushed to sell food items they had previously been hoarding.

Prices remain extremely high but have dropped slightly compared to previous days. The price of a kilogram of flour has fallen to $15 (£11) down from $85 (£63) just four days ago.