According to the UN World Food Programmed (WFP), a 14-truck food convoy – the first by the WFP since it paused deliveries to northern Gaza on 20 February – was turned back by the Israeli army after a three-hour wait at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint.

Carl Skau, WFP’s deputy executive director, said although the convoy did not make it to the north to provide food to the people who are starving, the UN body continues to explore every possible means to do so.

With the 14-truck food convoy being turned back, the WFP turned to airdrops.