Aid allowed into besieged area described as “a trickle among a sea of need”.

The United Nations estimated that the Netanyahu government’s continued starvation of more than two million Palestinians could kill up to 14,000 infants in the next two days without a serious influx of aid.

News outlets have reported since Monday [19 May] that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu allowed five aid trucks carrying baby food and other nutritional aid into the besieged enclave – but humanitarian experts and workers have decried the arrival of the aid as “a trickle among a sea of need”.

Tom Fletcher, under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs for the United Nations,  said the tiny amount of aid was a “drop in the ocean” in a bombarded enclave where food security experts announced earlier this month that nearly a quarter of a million people are facing “extreme deprivation of food” and the entire population has “very high” levels of acute malnutrition and excess mortality.

While many medical workers have been killed in Israeli bombings, Fletcher told the BBC’s Radio 4 Today program that teams have assessed that 14,000 infants are........

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