'Humanitarian pauses' How much of a difference will this make?

How bad is the starvation crisis? Last week Gaza entered a fullblown starvation crisis, with dozens dying from hunger.

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According to the World Food Programme, 90,000 women and children are in urgent need of treatment for malnutrition, while one in three people are going without food for days.

Doctors in Gaza have described struggling to keep up with the number of patients seeking treatment for malnourishment, with few tools to provide help.

"Our malnutrition ward in the hospital is extremely overcrowded.

Due to the large number of cases, some children are forced to sleep on the floor," said Dr Ahmad alFarra, the director of paediatrics at Nasser medical complex.

The hunger crisis has affected virtually everyone in Gaza, with the UN describing its staff as "walking corpses".

How much aid was getting in before yesterday? After resuming fighting in midMarch, Israel blocked all aid for two and a half months, in what it said was an attempt to put pressure on Hamas to release hostages.

In May, Israel started allowing a trickle of aid in, mostly through the private US Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Israel proposed the GHF as an alternative to the UN-aid system after claiming without evidence - that Hamas was stealing aid from the UN.