Israel’s nearly 22-month military offensive against Hamas has shattered security in the territory of some 2 million Palestinians and made it nearly impossible to safely deliver food to starving people.

For months, the U.N. and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

International aid supplies have once again been dropped from the air over the sealed-off Gaza Strip, the Israeli military said on Thursday. The deliveries comprised 43 pallets of food dropped by parachute from Jordanian,