The UN resumed aid deliveries to Gaza this week, after Israel ordered a temporary pause in the total blockade on food, water and medical supplies that had lasted 80 days. But US-Israeli plans are already underway to sideline the UN's entire relief operation in the territory.

Israel appears to be changing tack as pressure mounts to get more aid into Gaza, and may let aid groups operating in the battered enclave take charge of non-food assistance

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Friday said Israel has only authorized for Gaza what "amounts to a teaspoon of aid when a flood of assistance is required" and again signaled that the U.N. won't take part in a new U.