US and Jordan air drop food supplies in Gaza

American and Jordanian aircraft dropped food supplies in the Gaza Strip on Saturday, US Central Command said in a statement.

The air drops were carried out by US Air Force C-130 aircraft and a Royal Jordanian Air Force C-130 aircraft.

It came on the day that the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said that one in three children under the age of two were acutely malnourished in northern Gaza, and warned of looming famine.

Air drops have been widely criticised for being dangerous, inefficient and limited in its quantities. 

Earlier this month, five Palestinians were killed and several wounded after a parachute landing a humanitarian air-drop load failed to open, bringing a pallet crashing down into a crowd of people waiting for food north of Gaza City's Shati refugee camp.