The Kingdom of Jordan will airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza as Palestinians face widespread starvation and diplomatic talks over a ceasefire breakdown.

Israel will allow Arab countries to again conduct airdrops of aid into Gaza as the humanitarian situation in the enclave continues to worsen

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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.”

French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France would recognize Palestine as a state, saying, 'The urgent thing today is that the war in Gaza stops and the civilian population is saved.

Scores of aid groups say the humanitarian situation in Gaza is worse than ever and that starvation is spreading, with Israel blaming the situation on Hamas.

Almost a third of people in Gaza are “not eating for days”, the United Nations food aid agency told AFP on Friday, saying the crisis has reached “new and astonishing levels of desperation”. The Rome-based World Food Programme had previously warned of a “critical risk of famine” in war-raged Gaza,