Israel appears to be changing tack as pressure mounts to get more aid into Gaza, and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave take charge of non-food assistance.

A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral,

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in early March 2025 that Israel would "stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza."

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 15 people on Saturday across the Palestinian territory, where Israel has ramped up its military offensive in recent days.Civil defence agency spokesman Mahmud Bassal told AFP the dead included a couple who were killed with their two young children in a pre-dawn strike on a house in the Amal quarter of the southern city of Khan Yunis.

Pope Leo XIV has called for humanitarian aid to reach the Gaza Strip and for an end to the “heartbreaking” toll on its people.

The U.N. is still trying to get the desperately needed aid that has entered Gaza this week into the hands of Palestinians amid delays because of fears of looting and Israeli military restrictions.

The prime minister said that while Israel plans to take “all” of Gaza, he had to prevent mass starvation there for “practical and diplomatic reasons.”

Humanitarian organisations warn of acute levels of hunger among the 2.1 million population in Gaza after Israel eases its 11-week aid blockade.