As Israel cuts off all humanitarian aid to Gaza, aid groups say they are scrambling

The blockade that Israel put in place on all humanitarian good entering Gaza amid a standoff with the U.S.- and Israeli-designated terrorist group Hamas over how to keep the ceasefire in Gaza going has sent humanitarian groups into overdrive. Organizations say they're trying to figure out how to distribute dwindling supplies to the most vulnerable of the enclave's roughly 2 million people, and there's fear the situation is only going to get worse.

Officials in the central Gazan city of Deir al-Balah said Wednesday — three days into Israel's freeze on food, fuel, medicine and other supplies entering the decimated Hamas-controlled Palestinian territory — that Israel had also cut off electricity to two desalination plants that supply around 70% of the area's residents with fresh water.  

The aid freeze has imperiled the tenuous progress humanitarian workers say they were making to stave off famine in Gaza during the first phase of the ceasefire that Israel and Hamas agreed to in January. That first phase ended on March 1, and it's unclear what comes next as Israel pushes for an extension of phase-one, and Hamas demands a transition two a second phase.