Three US military planes begin dropping humanitarian aid on Gaza. Three US Air Force C-130s conducted operations to provide "aid to civilians affected by the ongoing conflict" The planes dropped "66 packages in total of meals without pork," a senior official explained.
President Joe Biden announced the day before that the United States would begin airlifting supplies to Gaza, following the deaths of more than 100 Palestinians in an Israeli attack as they surrounded an aid convoy on Thursday. In that incident, dozens of desperate Palestinians died while rushing to reach a convoy in northern Gaza.