"We airdropped aid to Gazan civilians and we called on other nations to join us. Some have already done so," the PMO added.

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

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.

Shifa Hospital said the dead and wounded were among crowds massed at the Zikim Crossing, the main entry point for humanitarian aid to northern Gaza.

Health officials in the Gaza Strip say Israeli strikes and gunfire have killed at least 46 Palestinians overnight and into Wednesday, most of them among crowds seeking food.

The U.N. is due to start vaccinating some 640,000 children in the territory against polio, relying on daily eight-hour pauses in fighting.

Gaza’s population is facing the “worst-case scenario of famine” and “widespread death” will occur without immediate action, the leading international authority on food crises has warned

Gaza is slipping into famine, UN agencies warned on Tuesday, as the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said the Palestinian death toll in the nearly 22-month war had topped 60,000.The Hamas-run territory's health ministry said Israel's campaign had now killed 60,