The Agriculture Department updated the WIC program to more closely align with nutrition guidelines. The changes also reduce assistance for milk and juice.
Humanitarian groups generally airdrop aid only as a last resort. France said it was ramping up its work with Jordan because Gazans were dying of hunger and disease.
Residents of two neighborhoods in Gaza City were ordered to evacuate, and the World Food Program described scenes of chaos in the north too dangerous to allow it to provide food supplies.