BRUSSELS — Europe’s top diplomats are assessing a new deal with Israel to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza, according to Kaja Kallas, the European Union’s foreign policy chief.

Egypt's foreign minister said on Monday that the flow of aid into Gaza has not increased despite an agreement last week between Israel and the European Union that should have had that result.

Since the EU deal was announced last Thursday, scores of people including children have been killed by Israeli forces while seeking aid from the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Kaag said that the EU must not fall into a trap of seeing aid as a bargaining chip, rather than a fundamental human right.

Israel’s military said a “technical error” had caused munition to land dozens of meters from its target. The victims were gathered near a water distribution point, health workers said.

Six children waiting for water are among those killed in an Israeli air strike, emergency service officials say.