After weeks of global condemnation sparked by images of starving people in Gaza, Israel on Sunday announced changes to aid operations in the strip.
It would start airdropping pallets of food in the territory, it said, as well as make it easier for humanitarian groups to bring trucks of aid to Gaza.
But after just two days there has been criticism that the airdrops are expensive, ineffective and dangerous.
One aid agency called it a "smokescreen" and a "distraction".
Humanitarian groups have also said far more is needed to feed the roughly 2 million people inside Gaza.
So why has Israel announced them, and how much food will they really deliver to hungry Palestinians?
What has Israel announced?
On Sunday, Israel and a coalition of other countries, including Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, began airdropping parcels of food in Gaza.
At the same time, the Israeli military announced military operations — including bombing and fighting — would "pause" for 10 hours a day in different parts of Gaza, to make it easier to distribute aid.
The military also said it would create "humanitarian corridors" to provide secure routes the United Nations and other aid agencies could use to take food through the strip.
Designated secure routes for convoys delivering food and medicine will be in place between 6am and 11pm, it said.
How much food is needed in Gaza?
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), which coordinates aid deliveries in Gaza, said the population needed more than 62,000 tonnes of food aid per month.
That amount would just cover people's most basic needs, the WFP said.
WFP said in the past two months it had been able to deliver about 22,000 tonnes of food aid — just one-sixth of what was needed.
"The quantity of food aid delivered to date is still a tiny fraction of what a population of over 2 million people need to survive," it said in a recent update.
Nearly one in three people in Gaza have not eaten for days at a time, the WFP said.
About 500 trucks of aid — including food and other supplies like medical equipment — entered Gaza each day on average before the war, according to the UN.
Many aid groups say a full ceasefire, to allow for aid to be distributed over land, is the only way to address the hunger crisis.
How much food will airdrops deliver to Gaza?
It's hard to give an exact answer to that question. But humanitarian organisations say it won't be enough.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the airdrop it did on Sunday consisted of seven pallets carrying supplies such as flour, sugar and canned food. It did not say how much food exactly each pallet contained, or how many people they were expected to feed.
While it's hard to know how much food will be delivered on the ground, previous airdrop expeditions have given us some insight.
Last year the ABC joined a UK RAF airdrop flight over Gaza and learned that each trip parachuted 12 pallets of food — weighing about 11 tonnes total — into Gaza.
At the time, 11 tonnes was equivalent to just one truck full of food.
On Sunday, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates parachuted 25 tonnes of aid into Gaza, according to Jordanian officials.
That would amount to about two trucks' worth of humanitarian aid.
On Monday, an extra 20 pallets of aid were airdropped, said Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is responsible for coordinating aid into Gaza.
Is the food in air drops reaching people in Gaza?
One of the issues with using airdrops to distribute aid is that it's difficult to make sure it gets to the people who need it most, said Olga Cherevko, the spokesperson for the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Gaza.
There have also been reports of some Palestinians being injured by the air drops, she added.
"Any effort to provide aid to people here is a welcome thing," she said.
"But as we have previously said … the most efficient way is to bring aid by land."
Palestinians in Gaza also told the ABC they were worried they could not access the airdropped supplies.
One man, who only gave his name as Salah, said he was trying to support 14 members of his family, and could not reach the aid as it was being dropped in areas far from where he was living.
"The distribution via airplanes is difficult — the crowds of people, it is very difficult to reach it, especially the elderly and the sick," he said.
"There should be a different way, a solution that will benefit everyone."
Samah Shahin, who lives with health issues including diabetes and high blood pressure, said she and her family — including children and grandchildren — hadn't eaten for two days.
"What they send from air, neither me nor the people in the camp benefit from it," she said.
"The aid that arrives is stolen, we don't get to see anything from the aid … we want our share."
How has food aid entering Gaza been restricted?
Aid organisations said there were a few issues, including Israel blocking aid entering Gaza for weeks at a time and challenges with movement inside the strip making it difficult to distribute supplies.
Israel blocked all aid entering the strip for 11 weeks, from March 2 to May 21.
"The Gaza Strip has been deprived of the proper scale of assistance for months," Antoine Renard, the World Food Programme country director for Palestine who is currently in Gaza, told Radio National Breakfast.
"That means that people are lacking any of the basics."
Last week more than 100 humanitarian agencies warned mass starvation was spreading across the strip.
The World Health Organization (WHO) labelled it a man-made crisis — a claim disputed by Israel.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claimed Hamas had been stealing aid and impeding its distribution, and also blamed groups such as the UN for failing to deliver the aid.
Israel claimed the UN had left hundreds of truckloads of food waiting at depots inside the Gaza border — criticism the UN and humanitarian agencies have rejected.
The organisations accused Israel of failing to provide safe routes for convoys to travel through Gaza, making it too dangerous for staff to pick up supplies and take them to the areas needed.
Will the airdrops make a difference?
The head of the UN's Palestinian aid agency, Philippe Lazzarini, described the resumption of airdrops as a "distraction" and "smokescreen".
"Driving aid through is much easier, more effective, faster, cheaper and safer. It's more dignified for the people of Gaza," he posted on X.
Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, which conducted some of the first airdrops, also said the aerial aid was not a substitute for delivery by land.
Aid agencies said more than 100 truckloads of aid had been collected since Sunday, but warned far more was needed.
"This is progress, but vast amounts of aid are needed to stave off famine and a catastrophic health crisis," said Tom Fletcher, the United Nations' Emergency Relief Coordinator, in a statement issued overnight.
COGAT said 200 trucks of aid were collected and distributed on Monday.
An additional 260 trucks had entered Gaza and were awaiting collection and distribution, along with hundreds of others still queued for UN pick-up, it said.
