Last Monday, Jordan carried out the largest aid landing operation for the residents of Gaza since the start of the Israeli war on the Strip (social networking sites)

Today, Thursday, the Jordanian army announced the implementation of two new airdrops of relief and food aid to the Gaza Strip, in cooperation with the Sultanate of Oman and Bahrain. The Egyptian army also announced that Egyptian and Emirati planes carried out another airdrop.

A statement by the Jordanian army on its official website stated that the Jordanian Armed Forces carried out two airdrops of relief and food aid to the Gaza Strip on Thursday, in cooperation with the Kingdom of Bahrain and the Sultanate of Oman, “in order to support and assist the family and brothers, stand with them, and mitigate the effects of the raging Israeli war on the Strip.”

The Jordanian army confirmed that it is continuing to send aid via an air bridge to deliver humanitarian and medical aid, whether through aid planes from Marka Airport towards Al-Arish International Airport or through airdrops into the Gaza Strip.

The Jordanian army announced last Monday that it had carried out the largest aid landing operation for the residents of Gaza since the start of the Israeli war on the Strip last October. It said that the aid landing operations were carried out by 3 Jordanian planes and a French plane and targeted 11 sites on the Gaza coast from the north to the south of the Strip. .

Last Tuesday, the Hashemite Charitable Organization (officially) announced that the number of aircraft sent as part of the air bridge to the residents of Gaza had reached 60 aircraft, including 15 airdrops, in addition to the land bridge through which 380 trucks were sent.

On the same day, the Jordanian army announced the participation of King Abdullah II of Jordan in airdrops of relief aid to the residents of the Gaza Strip, in his second participation, as official media had previously circulated a video clip of him participating in an airdrop on the 11th of this month.

Egyptian-Emirati airdrop

For its part, the Egyptian army announced in a statement by its spokesman, Colonel Gharib Abdel Hafez, that Egyptian and Emirati planes carried out an airdrop of aid into the Gaza Strip, in the second airdrop of humanitarian aid carried out by Egypt within about two days.

The spokesman said that a number of Egyptian and Emirati military transport planes took off from Al-Arish Airport to carry out night air drops of tens of tons of urgent aid and relief materials “to alleviate the severe humanitarian crisis from which Palestinian citizens in northern Gaza are suffering.”

He added that the airdrop comes "in implementation of the directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, to continue the air bridge to transport urgent humanitarian aid to the Palestinian brothers in the Gaza Strip."

According to the Egyptian spokesman, the aid included large quantities of food supplies, medicines, and urgent needs that were dropped by air in various areas of the northern Gaza Strip, which “lack the basic necessities of life as a result of the continuation of military operations.”

Two days ago, Egypt also participated in an airdrop with Jordan, the UAE, Qatar, and France to provide aid to the Gaza Strip.

It is noteworthy that the Associated Press reported yesterday that the Canadian Minister of International Development, Ahmed Hussein, said that the Canadian government will work to drop aid by air into Gaza as soon as possible, while the administration of US President Joe Biden is studying the same matter, amid growing fears of famine in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Since October 7, 2023, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip that has left tens of thousands of civilian martyrs, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe and massive destruction of infrastructure, which led to Tel Aviv being brought before the International Court of Justice on charges of genocide. .

Source: Agencies