Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians over northern Gaza Strip on Sunday. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

Israeli strikes killed at least 36 Palestinians before U.S. President Donald Trump met with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Monday in Scotland, where they confirmed plans to discuss Gaza. Later in the day, the death toll across Gaza Strip rose, with local health officials saying at least 78 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli strikes or gunfire.

A day after Israel eased aid restrictions due to a worsening humanitarian crisis, Trump said he disagreed with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s statement that there was no starvation in Gaza.

Israel on Sunday announced a pause in military operations in certain areas for 10 hours daily to improve aid flow. Alongside the measures, military operations continued. Israel had no immediate comment about the latest strikes, which occurred outside the declared time frame for the pause between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.

Aid agencies welcomed the new measures but say they are insufficient. Images of emaciated children have sparked global outrage. Most of Gaza’s population now relies on aid and accessing food has become increasingly dangerous.

Asked if he agreed with Netanyahu’s remarks about hunger in Gaza, Trump said, “I don’t know. I mean, based on television, I would say not particularly because those children look very hungry.”

Starmer, standing next to Trump, said, “We’ve got to get that ceasefire,” in Gaza and called it “a desperate situation.”

14 blockade activists to remain in Israel custody

An Israeli detention court ruled Monday that 14 individuals who were on a ship attempting to breach the blockade of Gaza, will remain in custody until their deportation.

There were 21 activists and a small amount of aid onboard the Handala, a ship the Israeli military intercepted around midnight on Saturday. Seven of the passengers have already been deported, with the rest slated for deportation in the coming days.

The Handala was the second ship operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition that Israel has prevented in recent months from delivering aid to Gaza, where food experts have for months warned of the risk of famine. Activist Greta Thunberg was among 12 activists on board the ship Madleen when it was seized by the Israeli military in June.

Israel’s opposition leader calls for immediate end to the war

Yair Lapid, head of the opposition in Israel’s parliament, called on the government to immediately end the war in Gaza, calling it “not a complete victory, but a complete disaster.”

“If we don’t end the war now, the hostages will not return, the IDF will continue to lose its best fighters, the humanitarian disaster will worsen, the world will close itself off to Israelis,” Lapid said Monday night, and called on a coalition of moderate Arab countries, led by Egypt, to run Gaza.

“The management of humanitarian aid in Gaza has collapsed. It simply doesn’t work,” he said, adding that Israel was helping Hamas’ campaign as the humanitarian situation continued to worsen.

Planes from Jordan and UAE airdrop humanitarian aid

Two planes from the Jordanian and UAE Air Force airdropped 17 tons of humanitarian aid in Gaza on Monday, Jordan’s military said. The aid packages come as hunger continues to soar across the strip.

The airdrops took place for the second day as Israel faces increasing pressure over Gaza’s humanitarian crisis. However, Philippe Lazzarini, the head of the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, warned that airdrops are “expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians.”

The 17 tons of airdropped aid amounts to less than one aid truck carrying food, based on the World Food Programme’s calculation of nearly 19 tons per truck.