The Israeli military will allow foreign countries to drop aid into the Gaza Strip, according to a report Friday on Israel Army Radio, citing an army source. Israel will allow the United Arab Emirates and Jordan to resume air-dropping aid packages,

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu broke the last cease-fire in the Gaza war on March 18 by launching air strikes that killed more than 400 Palestinians in 36 hours, a reported 183 of them children. He had also imposed a total blockade on March 2,

After four months of near-total siege by Israel, people in Gaza are starving. The United Nations says at least one in three people are going multiple days without eating, and death from hunger is on the rise.

Aid agencies warned for months that Israel’s harsh limits on food aid would bring acute malnutrition and widespread suffering to Gaza’s 2.1 million people.

As aid groups warn of "mass starvation" in Gaza, experts say malnutrition risks not only killing more children, but also damaging the development of those who survive, with potentially lifelong consequences.