Palestinians in Gaza have reacted with wariness after Israel began a limited, daily pause in fighting in three populated areas of Gaza to allow what Benjamin Netanyahu described as a “minimal” amount of aid into the territory.
Scores of Palestinians have died of starvation in recent weeks in a crisis attributed by humanitarian organizations and the UN to Israel’s blockade of almost all aid into the territory. The World Food Program (WFP) said 90,000 women and children were in urgent need of treatment for malnutrition and that one in three people were going without food for days.
The Israeli military said it had began a “tactical pause” in the densely populated areas of Gaza City, Deir al-Balah, and Muwasi to “increase the scale of humanitarian aid” into the strip. The pause would be repeated every day from 10am to 8pm local time until further notice and Israel would continue fighting in other areas of Gaza.
Civilians were critical of the new aid measures, particularly the airdrops. The Palestinian ministry of health recorded 10 injuries from falling aid boxes on Sunday. Soon after the humanitarian pause began, Israel carried out an airstrike on a building in Gaza City, killing a woman and her four children.
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