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

The reality of the situation on the ground in Gaza, and the spectre of children dying of malnutrition or starvation, sits at such extraordinary odds with the language of spokespeople for both the Netanyahu government and the IDF.

Our hunger strike will also be in conjunction and in solidarity with the global fast for Gaza that is happening now,’ says activist Huwaida Arraf - Anadolu Ajansı

In May, Trump secured the release of Edan Alexander, the last US Israeli citizen held hostage after Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023, surprise attack on southern Israel, which killed about 1,200 people, mainly civilians, and started the latest war. Alexander, who grew up in Tenafly, NJ, had been serving in the Israeli military when he was captured.

Mahmoud Abbas urges Trump to allow UN agencies to deliver aid, calls mass displacement and starvation of Palestinians a ‘stain on humanity’ - Anadolu Ajansı

The humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip is beyond the world’s “worst fears,” Australia’s government said Friday, as reports of mass starvation and disease across the war-torn enclave persist. “The situation in Gaza has gone beyond the world’s worst fears.