Aid was airdropped into Gaza’s Beit Lahiya on Sunday (July 27), as Israel said that it began aid airdrops to Gaza on Saturday (July 26) and was taking several other steps to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Jordan and the United Arab Emirates parachuted 25 tons of aid into the Gaza Strip on Sunday in their first airdrop in months, a Jordanian official source said.

Palestinians gathered in hopes of receiving supplies. Many people walked through the area, waiting for assistance, but frustration grew as some didn't get anything.

"From 6am until now we didn't eat or drink. We didn't get aid from the trucks, after that they said that planes will airdrop aid so we waited for that as well," said Massad Ghaban standing in Beit Lahiya.

Earlier on Sunday (July 27), aid trucks started moving towards Gaza from Egypt, according to an Egyptian TV news, after months of international pressure and warnings from relief agencies of starvation spreading in the Palestinian enclave.

Israel has been facing growing international criticism, which the government rejects, over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and indirect ceasefire talks in Doha between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas have broken off with no deal in sight.

Military activity will stop from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (0700-1700 GMT) until further notice in Al-Mawasi, a designated humanitarian area along the coast, in central Deir al-Balah and in Gaza City, to the north.

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BETWEEN CAIRO AND ISMAILIA, EGYPT (FILE - OCTOBER 14, 2023)

1. LINE OF TRUCKS CARRYING AID PREPARED BY EGYPT-BASED NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR CIVIL AND DEVELOPMENT ACTION

The first truck with humanitarian aid entered the Rafah border crossing with the besieged Gaza Strip on October 21, 2023 after days of diplomatic wrangling over conditions for delivering the relief.

RAFAH, EGYPT (FILE - OCTOBER 21, 2023) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS - Access all)

2. TRUCKS DRIVING TOWARDS GATE / VOLUNTEERS CHEERING AND WAVING EGYPTIAN FLAGS

RAFAH BORDER CROSSING, GAZA (FILE - OCTOBER 21, 2023) (REUTERS – Access All)

3. TRUCK CARRYING HUMANITARIAN AID ENTERING GAZA THROUGH RAFAH CROSSING

SOUTHERN GAZA, GAZA (FILE - OCTOBER 21, 2023) (REUTERS - Access all)

4. TRUCKS DRIVING ROUND THE CORNER AT THE CROSSING

Thousands of Gaza residents broke into warehouses and distribution centres of the United Nations Palestinian Refugee Agency (UNRWA) grabbing flour and "basic survival items," the organisation said on October 29, 2023.

In Khan Younis, Gazans were seen carrying boxes and bags of food aid in front of a warehouse in the city on October 28.

KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (FILE - OCTOBER 28, 2023) (REUTERS – Access all)

5. PEOPLE CARRYING BAGS AND SACKS OF FOOD AND WALKING AWAY FROM WAREHOUSE

6. PEOPLE IN FRONT OF U.N. WAREHOUSE TAKING AID BOXES AND SACKS OF AID

Hundreds of Palestinians waited in long queues to get fuel in Khan Younis, on the second day of truce between Israel and Hamas.

KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (FILE - NOVEMBER 25, 2023) (REUTERS – Access all)

7. PALESTINIANS WAITING IN QUEUES NEXT TO GAS CANISTERS

8. CHILD BEING CARRIED

9. WOMEN WAITING IN LINE WITH SOME PEOPLE SITTING ON GROUND

10. MAN HOLDING GAS CANISTER AMONG PEOPLE WAITING, WHILE SAYING (Arabic): “There is gas, are you lying to us. We want to fill gas.”

Several planes airdropped humanitarian aid in the northern Gaza Strip , for the second time that week. The flow of aid entering Gaza from Egypt had declined dramatically, but Israel said it was not blocking aid and blamed the U.N. and the Palestinian side for delays.

GAZA CITY, GAZA (FILE - MARCH 1, 2024) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS - Access all)

11. VARIOUS OF HUMANITARIAN AID DROPPED FROM SKY WITH PARACHUTES OVER NORTHERN GAZA STRIP

Hundreds of people rushed towards an aid truck carrying bags of flour in Gaza City.

GAZA CITY, GAZA (FILE - MARCH 2, 2024) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS - Access all)

12. VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CLIMBING ONTO AID TRUCK TO GET BAGS OF FLOUR

Israeli army released video on March 15, 2024 it said showed a charity ship towing a barge loaded with aid arriving off the coast of Gaza. The ship was part of a test run for a new aid route by sea from Cyprus into the devastated Palestinian enclave where famine loomed, as the war approached its six-month mark.

OFF GAZA COAST (FILE - RELEASED MARCH 15, 2024) (ISRAELI ARMY HANDOUT - Access all) (PART MUTE)

13. VARIOUS OF SHIP ARRIVING TO GAZA VIA MEDITERRANEAN SEA (PART MUTE)

14. STILL PHOTO SAID TO SHOW THE DOCK AREA (MUTE)

15. STILL PHOTO SAID TO SHOW A HUGE SIGN READING IN (English): 'WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN', OFF GAZA COAST (MUTE)

Twelve people drowned trying to reach aid dropped by plane off a Gaza beach, Palestinian health authorities said on March 26, 2024 as fears of famine grew. Video of the air drop obtained by Reuters showed crowds of people running towards the beach, in Beit Lahiya in north Gaza, as crates with parachutes floated down, with people standing deep in water and bodies being pulled onto the sand.

BEIT LAHIYA, GAZA (FILE - MARCH 25, 2024) (VIDEO OBTAINED BY REUTERS – Access all)

16. PEOPLE RUNNING BY COASTAL AREA AS AID IS BEING AIRDROPPED

17. PARACHUTED PARCELS FLYING OVERHEAD

18. MAN IN SEA PASSING BOX ONTO ANOTHER MAN ON THE BEACH / PEOPLE IN THE SEA CARRYING BOXES

19. MEN CARRYING COVERED BOARD

20. PEOPLE IN THE SEA CARRYING BOXES

Crowds of Palestinians gathered at a bakery in Gaza's Khan Younis , scrambling to get bread, with some families saying that they have to wait for hours, and at times having to walk away empty-handed.

KHAN YOUNIS, GAZA (FILE - OCTOBER 23, 2024) (REUTERS - Access all)

21. VARIOUS OF MAN THROWING BAGS OF BREAD TO PEOPLE

22. CROWD OF PEOPLE WAITING OUTSIDE BAKERY/SCRAMBLING TO GET BREAD

23. LITTLE GIRL CRYING

24. VARIOUS OF WOMEN AND MEN CROWDING AT BAKERY