During a bilateral meeting in Egypt on Saturday, both countries firmly condemned the plan announced by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier this week. Israel is reportedly preparing a two-stage plan of seizing Gaza City first,

Israel alleges, without giving evidence, that Hamas systematically diverts aid from the existing U.N.-led system, which denies it. That system has called for more of the trucks waiting outside Gaza to be allowed not just into the territory, but safely to destinations inside it for distribution.