In Gaza right now, food aid, water, and medical supplies are the responsibility of international aid organizations under the direction of the UN and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent.

According to the International Herald Tribune, the United Nations suspended food aide deliveries to Gaza today when a driver, Bassem Quta, 32, was killed during an Israeli attack. Earlier this week, two delivery truck drivers were killed by missiles fired from a helicopter. Andrew Whitley, director of the United Nations relief agency office in New York, said that food deliveries would be suspended “until Israel could guarantee the safety of [U.N.] convoys.”

In addition, on Wednesday, during a three hour pause in the fighting so that people in Gaza could seek medical assistance and supplies, members of the International Red Cross found four starving children in a house in Gaza, according to Reuters. The IRC has accused Israel of violating the Geneva Conventions, which require that warring parties do “everything possible to search for, collect and evacuate the wounded and sick without delay.”

If anyone has suggestions on how to assist in pressuring for more aid access (or other more effective responses), please post them as comments. Here’s a link to the IRC for giving to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent.