Humanitarian teams and several other governments are stepping up efforts by air, land and sea to ease the struggling in aid-starved Gaza. A ship carrying 200 tons of meals departed Cyprus for Gaza on Tuesday, the identical day a U.S. army plane dropped 5,280 kilos of meals into northern Gaza and Israel allowed a World Meals Program convoy to ship meals for 25,000 individuals in Gaza Metropolis. Assist teams say the spiraling humanitarian catastrophe is especially unhealthy within the north, the place some 300,000 individuals dwell on the point of famine.