US Central Command has said in a statement that US and Jordanian aircraft have dropped food supplies to Palestinian civilians trapped in the Gaza Strip in a joint humanitarian aid operation, Reuters reports.

The airdrops by a US Air Force C-130 aircraft and a Royal Jordanian Air Force C-130 aircraft came as the main UN agency working in the enclave said that one in three children under age two is acutely malnourished. It warned of looming famine.

US Central Command called the airdrops “part of a sustained effort and we continue to plan follow-on aerial deliveries”.