Live updates: Trucks loaded with humanitarian aid waiting to enter Gaza

After a nearly three-month blockade and warnings by global experts of impeding famine, Israel says it will allow a limited amount of humanitarian aid into Gaza even as it launches “extensive” new ground operations there. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says a “starvation crisis” in Gaza would jeopardize the new offensive — the largest since Israel in March ended the ceasefire — and that a “basic” amount of food would be allowed in. Israel in early March cut off all food, medicine and other supplies to the territory of over 2 million people to pressure Hamas over ceasefire terms.