PALESTINE – Local authorities on Sunday said that despite a “humanitarian pause,” only 73 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza in the last 24 hours.

In a statement, the government media office said the humanitarian crisis has reached unprecedented levels, with at least 133 people, including 87 children, dying from hunger since the start of the Israeli genocidal war.

The office accused Israel of deliberately engineering chaos and hunger in the territory.

“The famine is expanding at an alarming rate and now affects the entire population of Gaza, including 1.1 million children,” the statement said.

While several governments and international organizations have announced plans to deliver hundreds of aid trucks to Gaza, the statement said that only 73 trucks have arrived, and many of those were looted or obstructed under Israeli surveillance.

The media office said three airdrops were carried out over Gaza, but their total payload was equivalent to only two aid trucks.

The drops landed in “red zones” – active combat areas marked on Israeli maps – where civilians cannot safely retrieve supplies, it added.

“What is happening is a farce,” the office said, accusing the international community of complicity through “false promises” and “misleading information” coming from major powers like the US.

It renewed its call for the unconditional reopening of border crossings and the immediate entry of food, water, and infant formula.

Palestinian authorities say that Gaza needs 600 aid trucks daily to meet the needs of the territory’s 2.4 million population.

On Sunday, Israel announced plans for localized temporary pauses in fighting to allow aid deliveries through designated safe corridors after scores of Palestinians died of starvation in the blockaded enclave.

Jordan said early in the day that it had carried out three airdrops over Gaza in coordination with the United Arab Emirates.

Gaza’s hunger crisis has spiraled into a humanitarian catastrophe. Harrowing footage shows severely emaciated residents, some reduced to skin and bone, collapsing from exhaustion, dehydration, and prolonged starvation.