Good evening. I'm Lisa Desjardin. John Yang is away. A pivotal moment for lives and the conflict in the Middle East as deaths from hunger rise in Gaza.

Today, the Israeli military announced it will begin air drops of aid and will open more humanitarian corridors to bring in food.

But the UN and aid groups have criticized

air drops as inadequate and dangerous. The Gaza Health Ministry reported that in the last day,

five people died of malnutrition and starvation, including a baby girl. She's one of 85 children

to die of malnutrition over the last three weeks, the ministry said.

Death also came from above.

At least 42 people in Gaza were killed by gunfire and airstrikes, according to Gaza health officials.

Half were shot while waiting for aid.

Earlier today, I spoke with a leading aid worker who is in Gaza.

Rachel Cummings is with Save the Children.

I began by asking what she sees.

The situation in Gaza is catastrophic for children and for their families.

We're seeing now a sharp rise in the number of children coming to our clinics who are malnourished, very deeply

concerned about pregnant women and lactating breastfeeding women coming to our clinic who are malnourished.

And now we're hearing of people dying from starvation and this is deeply, deeply concerning.

We expect now an exponential rise in the number of people who are malnourished and at risk

of starvation.

You know, just in our clinics in the last two weeks, the first two weeks of July,

we've seen the same number as the whole of June.

So this is the rise that we've been fearing for so long. How about the supplies of food?

I know you've recently been to a market. And where are you seeing among your own staff in

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