The United Arab Emirates announces it will immediately resume airdrops of humanitarian aid to Gaza: "It has reached a critical level."

The United Arab Emirates will resume aid deliveries to Gaza immediately, its foreign minister said Saturday, describing the humanitarian situation in the blockaded territory as "critical," where organizations warn of the risk of widespread hunger.

We will ensure that essential aid reaches those most in need, whether by land, air, or sea. Airdrops will resume immediately.

"The humanitarian situation in Gaza has reached a critical and unprecedented level," Emirati Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan said in a post on X. " We will ensure that essential aid reaches those most in need, whether by land, air or sea. Airdrops resume once again, immediately."

Malnutrition has killed five more people, including a baby and two children , in the last 24 hours in Gaza, reported Al Shifa Hospital in the Palestinian Strip.

Baby Hood Arafat had been born just ten days before and had no access to formula milk. His mother, also suffering from malnutrition, was unable to breastfeed him.

The total number of victims of malnutrition since the start of the Israeli offensive against the Strip has risen to 127, 85 of whom were children, according to figures from the Gaza Health Department.

The UN refugee agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) had already warned that malnutrition among children under five had doubled between March and June as a result of the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip.

According to COGAT, the Israeli agency responsible for civil affairs in the occupied Palestinian territories, UN agencies and other organizations distributed nearly 100 humanitarian trucks in the Gaza Strip yesterday, without providing further details, according to the Israeli newspaper The Times of Israel.

During the early hours of this morning, however, army fire killed some 24 people and left more than 300 wounded near the Zikim military post, northwest of the city of Beit Lahia, as they awaited the arrival of aid trucks, Al Shifa Hospital reported.

Meanwhile, at least 24 people were killed and more than 300 wounded by Israeli army machine gun fire early this morning near the Zikim military post, northwest of the city of Beit Lahia, as they awaited the arrival of aid trucks, Al Shifa Hospital reported.

Local sources told EFE that only seven trucks entered the northern border through Zikim yesterday, and all of them were confiscated.

Residents of the north, where there are no distribution points run by the controversial Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF), rely on the few UN trucks that obtain Israeli permission, after a lengthy bureaucratic process, to enter the Strip.