US says Israel has accepted "the framework of an agreement" for a ceasefire in Gaza. But Hamas has yet to approve it.

Hundreds of thousands of people are fighting for survival in northern Gaza. U.S. military planes began the first airdrops ofThousands of meals to Gaza, and the armies of Jordan and Egypt said they were also making aIRDrops. European External Action Service said responsibility for the crisis lay with "restrictions imposed by the Israeli army and obstructions by violent extremists to the delivery of humanitarian aid"