The UK carried out its first solo airdrop into Gaza on Monday, dropping over 11 tons of food aid into the besieged Palestinian enclave.
A Royal Air Force plane flew from Amman, in Jordan, to release the aid along the northern Gaza coastline "as part of the Jordanian-led international aid mission," the UK Ministry of Defence said on Tuesday.
The UK stressed its commitment to ensuring that the food aid, including "water, rice, cooking oil, flour, tinned goods and baby formula," reaches those who "need it most."
Aid distribution warnings: Humanitarian agencies have criticized airdrops as an inefficient and degrading way of getting aid to Gazans, urging Israeli authorities to lift controls on land crossings into the enclave.
"You're throwing aid into the wind to people who've been starving and have been denied humanitarian access. This will create chaos, predictably, and we cannot blame the people for that," the UN's special rapporteur for food, Michael Fakhri, told journalists in Geneva earlier this month.
There have been calls on allies of Israel, including the UK and the US, to put pressure on Israel to allow more relief into Gaza via land crossings.
British defense secretary Grant Shapps on Tuesday said Israel should "provide port access and open more land crossings in order to increase incoming aid deliveries to Gaza."