Israel has allowed a partial lifting of the blockade of Gaza to permit some food drops to take place. 

But are drops from the air enough to alleviate conditions on the ground – conditions the United Nations has described as famine-like? 

Israel denies that it is deliberately engineering a famine.

But the UN says the next few days as “make or break” for humanitarian agencies trying to reach more than two million Gazans.

GUEST:

• Amra Lee is a researcher in the Department of International Relations at the Australian National University and a former adviser to the UN on humanitarian relief and conflict resolution.