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Despite Israel's recent actions to ease the blockade, people in the Gaza Strip are dying of hunger and more will follow if more aid isn't allowed in

As pallets of aid of are flung out of aircraft to those starving in Gaza, chief international correspondent Bel Trew joins a Jordanian flight - while Nedal Hamdouna watches from the devastated enclave

Israeli forces killed at least 23 Palestinians seeking food on Sunday in the Gaza Strip, according to hospital officials and witnesses, who described facing gunfire as hungry crowds surged around aid sites as the malnutrition-related death toll surged.