Airdropped aid continued to fall in the central Gaza Strip on Wednesday with desperate Palestinians struggling to collect what they could.

Israel’s decision to allow Gaza airdrops to resume comes with risks and high costs, and experts say it’s not enough to meet acute need amid a starvation crisis.

A United Nations-backed group says "the worst case scenario of famine" is unfolding in Gaza. Under international pressure, Israel has paused military operations for 10 hours a day to allow aid delivery by land and air in Gaza.

The leading international authority on food crises predicted "widespread death" in Gaza without immediate action.

Humanitarian aid organizations and international bodies have warned that Gaza is facing "critical" levels of hunger and that famine is "imminent" in parts of the strip.

A U.N.-backed group’s finding is the most dire assessment of the enclave’s deepening hunger crisis since the war began.

Gaza’s Health Ministry says over 60,000 Palestinians have been killed in the 21-month Israel-Hamas war DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — More than 60,000 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Hamas war,

Famine is "playing out" in the Gaza Strip, a global hunger monitor said in an alert issued on Tuesday as international criticism of Israel intensifies over rapidly worsening conditions in the Palestinian enclave.

Gaza is slipping into famine, UN-backed experts warned Tuesday, as the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said the death toll in the nearly 22-month war had surpassed 60,000.