Israel will coordinate airdrops of aid into Gaza from foreign countries in the coming days, an Israeli security official confirmed to ABC News.

Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were expected to begin airdrops in the coming days, but experts warned that the bulk of necessary aid could come only by land.

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Israeli army officials said they would allow foreign countries to resume airdropping aid into Gaza “in the coming days”. However, aid agencies have criticised the move as dangerous, insufficient, and costly.

"The humanitarian catastrophe that we are witnessing in Gaza must end now," a joint statement from the three countries reads.

Ministers have faced growing calls to recognise a Palestinian state immediately amid mounting global anger over the starving population in Gaza.

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PALESTINIAN rights campaigners have written to Welsh MPs urging them to take immediate action as starvation takes hold in Gaza.

The past few months have pushed Gaza to a new level of distress. The World Food Program, part of the United Nations, said this week that the crisis in Gaza had reached “astonishing levels of desperation, with a third of the population not eating for multiple days in a row.”

Against the backdrop of ongoing warnings of a deadly hunger crisis, some aid has reached the Gaza Strip, the United Nations said on Thursday. The UN confirmed that its teams were able to collect mainly flour at two border crossings on Wednesday and bring it into the coastal strip,