Aid airdrops continued over Gaza on Thursday (August 7), around a week after a global hunger monitor said a famine scenario is unfolding in the Strip. In the north of the enclave, father-of-four Abu Mohammed al-Omar said he managed to get lentils and tomato paste.

Airdropped aid continued to fall in Gaza Tuesday with desperate Palestinians struggling to collect what they could as food packages often land in far areas or in the so-called red zones controlled by the Israeli military.

Displaced Palestinians gather to receive aid that was airdropped by a U.S.-backed foundation in central Gaza on Tuesday. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry said Tuesday the number of malnutrition deaths recorded by hospitals in the Palestinian enclave in the past 24 hours had risen to 188,

After facing international criticism for its hand in Gaza’s food shortage, Israel has allowed nations to parachute in aid. However, international aid officials say it’s still not enough.

As the hunger and aid crisis in Gaza continues, CNN footage captures how children and the elderly are affected by the situation. CNN’s Chief Global Affairs Correspondent Matthew Chance reports.

The IPC has a five-phase scale, with the most extreme being a "catastrophe/famine." In order for a food security emergency to be formally declared a famine, the following very high thresholds must be met: The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) defines Famine as a situation in which at least one in five households has an extreme lack of food and face starvation and destitution,