British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Friday said Britain received Israel’s permission to airdrop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. The government was already working with Jordan to load British aid supplies onto planes for delivery, he said.

The news came after the Medecins Sans Frontieres, or MSF, aid organization on Wednesday said humanitarian organizations were blocked from accessing tons of humanitarian supplies stuck at the Gaza border. Aid distributions in Gaza average about 28 trucks a day, the organization said, which isn’t enough for over two million people. People had gone weeks without aid, and women and children were experiencing acute malnutrition, MSF said. The organization said the United Nations-led humanitarian system didn’t fail, but was prevented from functioning. MSF called the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, which is currently distributing aid and is backed by the U.S. and Israeli governments, an Israeli-controlled scheme.

But Israel’s ambassador to the United States, Yechiel Lieter, on Thursday said the U.N. refused to use safe routes provided by Israel or work with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation to distribute food. A total of 730 U.N. aid truckloads were sitting inside Gaza waiting for distribution, he said. An Israeli government organization said the contents of the U.N. aid pallets include special high-calorie food for children and babies.

The non-governmental nonprofit World Central Kitchen recently reopened a location inside Gaza at Deir al-Balah that provides about 60,000 meals a day to locals, Israel’s foreign ministry said. The reopening was possible because some aid organizations were collecting and distributing supplies previously left inside Gaza border crossing zones, the ministry said.

What else just happened related to the Israel-Hamas war? French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday said France would recognize a Palestinian state. France also demanded the demilitarization of Hamas, the rebuilding of Gaza, and the recognition of Israel by that Palestinian state, Macron said. Macron informed the president of the Palestinian Authority of his intention to advance the plan, he said. The Palestinian Authority oversees the West Bank and claims jurisdiction over the Gaza Strip. Macron said its president made commitments to him, though he did not provide further details.

British Prime Minister Starmer on Thursday said Palestinian statehood was an inalienable right, but should come after a ceasefire and as part of a two-state solution. Britain strongly supported the efforts of the United States, Qatar, and Egypt to broker a ceasefire with Hamas, he said. The United States and Israel withdrew their negotiators from talks with Hamas in Qatar on Thursday.

Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Friday said France’s move hurt chances of reaching a hostage deal and ceasefire and wouldn’t promote stability in the region. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio rejected France’s decision as a reckless move, along with U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee. Speaking to reporters Friday morning, President Donald Trump dismissed Macron’s support of a Palestinian state, saying the French president’s statements didn’t matter and carried no weight.

Dig deeper: Read my report on the U.S. and Israeli negotiators’ pullout from talks with Hamas.