The U.N. humanitarian office says a record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas.

Cyprus was the staging area last year for 22,000 tonnes of aid deliveries by ship directly to Gaza through a pier operated by the international charity World Central Kitchen and a US military-run docking facility known as the Joint Logistics Over-the-Shore System.

COGAT, the Defense Ministry body that coordinates humanitarian matters in the Gaza Strip, says it conducted a “comprehensive review” that exposes a “dramatic gap between the actual number of aid trucks entering Gaza and the figures presented by the UN.”

There have been “severe reporting discrepancies” made by the UN as to the amount of aid that has reached Gaza, the Israeli agency COGAT (Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories) said,

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More than 100 nonprofit groups warned Thursday that Israel’s rules for aid groups working in the Gaza Strip and occupied West Bank will block much-needed relief and replace independent organizations with those that serve Israel’s political and military agenda — charges that Israel denied.

Indonesia, a predominantly Muslim country, will be one of 11 countries to have executed aid drops in Gaza, with the coordination request specifically coming from within the political echelon. Indonesia will start airdropping aid into the Gaza Strip,

Israel is letting some supplies into the Gaza Strip but not enough to avert widespread starvation, said the United Nations human rights office on Tuesday.

The Jordanian air force C-130 Hercules cargo plane banked in a slow arc over the Mediterranean, pointing its nose toward Gaza for its approach — the final stage of the intricate ballet that is dropping aid over the war-ravaged enclave.

President Trump is making plans for the US to take over humanitarian aid distribution in Gaza as famine looms over the Palestinian enclave.