This could be the relief starving Gazans have been waiting for. Hundreds of trucks loaded with food aid, taking advantage of what the Israeli military is calling a tactical pause. For 11 hours each day, starting Saturday, Israel has pledged to stop fighting on a roadway leading from the Kerem Shalom Crossing deeper into Gaza.

This new initiative, which began on Saturday, allows the international organizations to move on the route without having to first coordinate. This gives them greater flexibility, and we hope to see it increase the amount of aid making its way to the humanitarian zone.

Aid workers have been in dire need of protection. The United Nations said today the Gaza Strip is the most dangerous place for them in the world. At least 250 have been killed there in eight months of war.

This tactical pause is supposed to help this much-needed food aid get into the Gaza Strip.

But on the Israeli side, the announcement caused confusion and controversy. Right-wing politicians blasted the decision. Security Minister Itimar Ben-Gaver said, Whoever made it is a fool who should no longer be in his job. The IDF has been struggling to explain.

This is what we call tactical pause. It made a little confusion in the Israeli media. They thought that we're doing a ceasefire. We're not doing a ceasefire.

An Israeli official said that when Benjamin Netanyahu heard about the pauses this morning, he called them unacceptable. The UN warned last week that parts of Gaza face famine-like conditions.

Nowadays, malnutrition is a common case. They came to the hospital every day.

Children are bearing the brunt. The UN said yesterday that 32 people had died of starvation, nearly all of them under age five. This mother says her baby's son is desperate for milk. In many cases, hunger is an added ailment, piled on top of other diseases and wounds of war. Rizan Mohaeson is only five years old. She's afflicted with a serious rash, in addition to severe malnutrition and a protein deficiency. But amidst the tragedies in Gaza, the US is struggling to quiet a second front. Amos Hukstein, a senior US diplomat met with Israeli leaders today to try to prevent a full-on war between Israel and Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militant group in Southern Lebanon. A war there could envelop the entire region, spreading civilian suffering far beyond Israel's borders.

Tom, even as that war continues, the governance of the war seems to be changing very fast. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided to fold or disband the so-called War cabinet that had been making day-to-day decisions about how the war is conducted. Instead, he's going to be relying on a kitchen cabinet, more of like a consultative body, to take their place. Now, this was all very expected ever since Benny Gantz, about a week ago, decided to resign in protest. But Benny Gantz was known as a relative moderate in a sea of Conservatives. So now it looks like the only person, the only people that Benjamin Netanyahu is going to be facing when he governs this war, are the far-right ministers that he appointed.

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