Bowen: Israel's aid measures a gesture to allies horrified by Gaza starvation

This might be a tacit admission by the Israelis that they need to do more - but more likely the measures are a response to allies.

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It is allowing airdrops of aid, carrying out the first one itself during the night and allowing the United Arab Emirates air force to follow with another later on Sunday.

The IDF also announced that it would allow a "tactical pause in military activity" in some areas and set up "designated humanitarian corridors… to refute the false claim on intentional starvation."

Hamas has condemned the moves as a "deception". Israel, it said, was "whitewashing its image before the world".

Israel later carried out an airstrike during the "tactical pause." Reports from the scene say a mother called Wafaa Harara and her four children, Sara, Areej, Judy and Iyad were killed.