The number of similar landing operations announced by the Jordanian army since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip is 28 (Anatolia)
The Jordanian army announced - today, Tuesday - that 8 military planes, including 3 Jordanian, 3 American, one French, and one Egyptian, dropped aid into the Gaza Strip, in the largest operation of this kind since the start of the war. Belgium also sent a plane loaded with aid to Jordan to participate in the operation. Landing.
Relief organizations confirm that aid entering the Gaza Strip remains very scarce, and aid convoys entering by land are subject to prior approval from Israel.
After 5 months of war and a tight siege on the Strip, the vast majority of the Palestinian Strip’s population of 2.4 million are vulnerable to famine, according to the United Nations.
The Jordanian Army said - in a statement - that the Jordanian Armed Forces carried out - Tuesday - 8 joint air landings with sisterly and friendly countries, the largest since the start of the landing operations until today, in which 3 C-130 aircraft belonging to the Royal Jordanian Air Force and 3 American aircraft participated. An Egyptian plane, and a French plane.”
He added that the relief and food aid targeted a number of sites in northern Gaza, while the aid included materials provided by the World Food Programme.
The number of similar landing operations announced by the Jordanian army since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip has reached 28, 15 of which were carried out in partnership with several countries, namely France, Britain, the Netherlands, the UAE, and Egypt.
US President Joe Biden said last weekend that the United States would join Jordan and others by providing additional food and supplies aid dropped from the air to the Gaza Strip.
But an American official considered that these aid drops “can only be a drop in the ocean” compared to the needs of the population.
Israeli restrictions
Dropping heavy packages in crowded areas may pose a danger to residents, and many of the packages dropped recently ended up in the sea, and others were swept away by the winds to Israeli areas.
Obtaining permission from the Israeli authorities is necessary for airdrops, because Israel controls the airspace over the Gaza Strip.
While Israel allows air aid, the amount of similar aid stored on the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing decreased by 50% during last February compared to the previous month, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
The transfer of humanitarian aid across the land borders from the Rafah and Kerem Shalom crossings has declined, and relief organizations attribute this to Israeli restrictions, while the occupation army continues to target and bomb gatherings of Palestinians waiting for aid trucks in the Strip.
Gaza is surrounded by 7 land crossings, 6 of which are controlled by Israel, 4 of which were closed during the past 17 years, and kept the Kerem Shalom commercial and Beit Hanoun (Erez) crossings designated for individuals and humanitarian cases, while the seventh is the Rafah land crossing with Egypt designated for individuals. And the goods.
Israel has several goals that it wants to achieve by allowing some countries to carry out airdrops, one of which was revealed by a spokesman for the occupation army, saying that “dropping aid by air allows the army to focus on the fighting.”
Source: Agencies