After gunfire erupted outside a humanitarian aid event for Gaza at the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington late Wednesday, Yoni Kalin and his wife, JoJo, watched as museum security rushed attendees away from the doors and others who had just left came tumbling back in.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called on the Israeli government to ensure that humanitarian aid can reach the suffering population in the Gaza Strip without delay. "We are very concerned about the situation in the Gaza Strip and also about the intensification of the military operations there by the Israeli army,

A U.S.-backed organization aims to start work in the Gaza Strip by the end of May, overseeing a new model of aid distribution in the Palestinian enclave, but the United Nations says the plan is not impartial or neutral,

Exposure to accurate reporting over the dire plight of people in Gaza resulted in 5% bump in those in Israel who supported aid convoys.

United Nations teams in Gaza have collected 90 truckloads of humanitarian aid after delays at the crossing with Israel kept the supplies in limbo for days. Under international pressure, Israel stopped blocking all food, medicine, fuel and other material on Monday after nearly three months.

Satellite images appear to show the construction of three large aid distribution sites in southern Gaza, amid reports about a controversial new United States-backed plan to bring more humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Israel began allowing dozens of humanitarian trucks into Gaza on Tuesday, but the aid has not yet reached Palestinians in desperate need, according to aid groups.