Five people die in Gaza after being hit by aid packages dropped from planes. United States and other countries have been carrying out air shipments of food aid to the Gaza Strip besieged by Israel, mired in a major humanitarian crisis and threatened with famine.
UN rapporteur on the right to food has denounced that Israel is using the control it has over the entry of food into Gaza to obtain advantages in its negotiations with Hamas. "Israel is intentionally starving the Palestinian people in Gaza and that famine is already occurring," he declared.