In recent days, videos and images showing people in Gaza desperately trying to access food and other humanitarian aid have been circulating across social media.
On Wednesday the UN's World Food Programme said two people had been killed after "hordes of hungry people" broke into one of their warehouses in central Gaza, in search of food. They said humanitarian needs had "spiraled out of control after 80 days of complete blockade" of aid into Gaza.
The previous day, footage showed a militarised aid compound near the southern town of Rafah being overrun by people trying to access supplies.
All this followed controversy around the launch of a US-Israeli backed aid distribution plan which was supposed to ensure aid is dispersed and not stolen by Hamas - as Israel has long claimed happens within the enclave.
So what’s known about aid the amount of food entering Gaza, and the processes being used to provide it?
No aid at all entered Gaza between 2 March and mid-May.
On 19 May, Israel began letting a handful of UN aid trucks in. Later that week, several dozen more aid trucks trickled into the enclave.
However, the UN and its agencies said it was a "drop in the ocean of what is urgently needed" as children are "being pushed to the brink of starvation".
UNRWA has said that between 500-600 trucks per day entered Gaza before 7 October, with food which was needed to meet basic humanitarian needs. The quantity of aid entering Gaza now is vastly insufficient, it says.
For its part, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), which is part of the Israeli Ministry of Defence, said that so far in May 760 trucks have entered, all through the Kerem Shalom checkpoint in the south - a point where the border of Gaza, Egypt and Israel all meet.
In other words, slightly more aid trucks entered Gaza during all of May than used to enter every day. COGAT, however, says "there is no famine in Gaza," adding that the phrase "facing famine" is misleading.
UN agencies said on Thursday that in recent days they have submitted 900 truckloads for Israeli approval - about 800 were cleared and just over 500 were cleared for offloading on the Israeli side of Kerem Shalom.
However, they noted, their teams inside Gaza have been able to collect only about 200 due to insecurity and restricted access to the places where the offloaded aid is located.
UNRWA noted in a statement that "while letting us bring in some nutrition and medical supplies, as well as flour, Israeli authorities have banned most other items, including fuel, cooking gas, shelter and hygiene products."
"They also imposed the condition that we could only deliver flour to bakeries and not directly to families. This required people to face large crowds to collect bread from a limited number of bakeries daily."
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The amount of aid now allowed to enter Gaza after a two-month blockade on all aid, is still horrifyingly low for many, but the distribution process is a further problem.
On Monday, a new plan for aid distribution was launched, run by a US and Israel-backed grouped named Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). That day the organisation issued a statement saying deliveries into Gaza had begun without specifying the number of trucks that entered the enclave.
Questions and controversy surrounds the GHF, which publicly launched earlier this year and is reportedly run by a group of American security contractors, ex-military officers, and individuals who worked in humanitarian aid.
It appears to have been set up to bypass the typical process of aid distribution done through the UN. Israel claims that the UN and its partners' aid is being diverted by Hamas, a claim the UN has said "doesn't hold up to scrutiny."
The UN and other international humanitarian groups have refused to work with the GHF saying the distribution hubs risk forcibly displacing Palestinians seeking aid.
Three of the GHF distribution centres are in southern Gaza - in areas the Israeli military has encouraged people to move to - there are currently none in Northern Gaza.
In a joint statement in recent days, 11 independent humanitarian organisations said the distribution programme was a "project led by politically-connected western security and military figures, coordinated in tandem with the Israeli government, and launched while the people of Gaza remain under total siege."
UNRWA for its part said on Thursday "We will not participate in any scheme that undermines neutrality, impartiality, or independence. Aid must not be weaponised."
Days before the distribution plan was launched, the GHF’s CEO Jake Wood - a former US Marine - announced his resignation citing ethical concerns over the distribution system.
"It is clear that it is not possible to implement this plan while also strictly adhering to the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, impartiality, and independence, which I will not abandon," he said in a statement.
Safe Reach Solutions (SRS), a private US security contractor, is reportedly guarding the distribution hubs inside Gaza. Israeli investigative outlet Shomrim obtained internal documents allegedly showing that SRS will be conducting intelligence operations aimed at furthering Israeli military objectives.
SRS is supposed to process visual data, which it will then use to identify Hamas operatives and other armed individuals, the outlet reported.
The Israeli military released a video showing one of a distribution centre in Tel Sultan, west of Rafah. In the videos, rows of fences have been erected, with gates, near the where the aid looks to be set up.
At one of these centres on Tuesday, crowds of people came to get aid. A fence erected by the GHF, and the military contractors working for them, began to sag under the weight of the crowd. It soon collapsed and chaos ensued, as people rushed, panicked, to find aid parcels.
The UN human rights office, OHCHR, said that it had received information that at least 47 people had been injured. Israel says its troops nearby fired warning shots.
Asked about the scenes at the distribution locations on Tuesday, the US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said "approximately 8,000 food boxes have been distributed so far. Each box feeds 5.5 people for three and a half days, totaling 462,000 meals."
Crowds descend on aid distribution point near Rafah. Video: EBU via @yousef_alyan_8
On the shots fired that day, she said "The bottom line is the real story here is that the aid is moving through. And in that kind of an environment it's not surprising that there might be a few issues involved, but the good news is, is that those seeking to get aid to the people of Gaza, which is not Hamas, have succeeded."
Commenting on GHF and incidents at the distribution location, Jonathan Whittall, the UN’s Head of Humanitarian Affairs for the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said the new aid programme promotes "engineered scarcity."
He added that it was: "A system where those Palestinians who can reach militarised distribution hubs may receive rations… Knowingly designing a plan that falls short of minimum obligations under international law is essentially an admission of guilt."
"Nowhere is safe. People are being starved and then drip-fed in the most undignified way possible," he added.
