The US and other countries carried out new airdrops of humanitarian aid in Gazawhere war and famine threaten hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, according to the Pentagon and the Jordanian military.

Military aircraft from Jordan, the US, France, the Netherlands, Belgium and Egypt took part in the operation, the Jordanian military said in a press release.

“US C-130 aircraft dropped more than 3,800 meals” in northern Gaza, the US military’s Middle East Command Centcom told X, as the Palestinian enclave, besieged by Israel, faces a humanitarian destruction.

According to the UN, famine is “almost inevitable” for Gaza’s 2.2 million residents, the vast majority of the population, with humanitarian aid arriving at a trickle.

On Monday, a Pentagon spokeswoman said between 30 and 120 trucks a day were carrying aid into Gaza last week.

“It is clearly insufficient to feed the population,” said Sabrina Singh, clarifying that the airdrops are meant to supplement and not replace aid flown in by land.

Since the start of the war, the Jordanian military has carried out 29 airdrops of aid into Gaza, in addition to the other 23 carried out jointly with other countries, it said in a press release today.

The UN is urging the world to “flood” Gaza with aid to save children “who are starting to starve” in an area where the health system has collapsed.