Open Arms offloads food shipment in effort to bring relief to Gaza
The Open Arms vessel is offloading aid after approaching the coast of Gaza earlier today. Footage posted by Al Jazeera Arabic shows a smaller vessel approaching the ship to collect about 200 tonnes of desperately needed food.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are on the brink of famine as Israeli forces bombard the enclave and restrict shipments of humanitarian relief.
ناشطون فلسطينيون يوثقون لحظة وصول سفينة محملة بالمساعدات قبالة شواطئ غزة#حرب_غزة #فيديو pic.twitter.com/odUWQChAhe
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) March 15, 2024
What happened to the rest of the 200 tonnes of aid. (Not food or water I guess)
Israeli military says aid shipment delivered for north Gaza distribution
The Israeli military says it presided over the delivery of 115 tonnes of food and water delivered by ship to the coast of Gaza. Its military spokesman for Arab media, Avichay Adraee, says the army transferred the shipments to 12 trucks belonging to World Central Kitchen (WCK) to be distributed in northern Gaza.
“The ship and the goods it carried were subjected to a careful security inspection,” he said.
Israel has restricted deliveries of food, medical supplies and other aid vital items through two land crossings – Rafah with Egypt and Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom). Critics say the slow trickle of humanitarian relief is far from enough needed to prevent famine faced by hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
Also how did those 12 trucks get there and why couldn't those bring aid in from the border? I guess smaller trucks that only carry 10 tonnes each.
115 tonnes of food and water is enough to sustain 29,000 people for one day.
(unless it's US tons, which are 0.907 metric tonnes. Since they use tonnes I assume it's metric tons)
Avg nr of trucks entered for the past week (8-14 March) was 164 per day, same avg as the week before. A lot better than Februari yet still far short of the 500+ needed daily just to sustain the population.
https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiZTVkYmEwNmMtZWYxNy00ODhlLWI2ZjctNjIzMzQ5OGQxNzY5IiwidCI6IjI2MmY2YTQxLTIwZTktNDE0MC04ZDNlLWZkZjVlZWNiNDE1NyIsImMiOjl9&pageName=ReportSection3306863add46319dc574
US wasting more tax payer money
US military confirms new airdrop of aid over northern Gaza
The US military says it airdropped humanitarian aid over the northern Gaza Strip. Two C-130 military cargo planes and a C-17 Globemaster III strategic military transport aircraft were involved, along with army soldiers specialised in aerial aid delivery, it said.
The airdrop involved some 35,700 meals and 31,800 bottles of water. Last week, five people were killed after a parachute landing aid failed to open, bringing a pallet crashing down into a crowd of people waiting for food.
Officials in Gaza have condemned the “useless” airdrops as “flashy propaganda rather than a humanitarian service”, and demanded Israel open its land crossings for relief to enter.
U.S. Central Command conducts 11th Humanitarian Airdrop into Gaza
U.S. Central Command conducted the 11th air drop of humanitarian assistance into Northern Gaza on March 15, 2024, at 12:12 p.m. (Gaza time) to provide essential relief to civilians affected by the ongoing… pic.twitter.com/ZzwKOn24gy
— U.S. Central Command (@CENTCOM) March 15, 2024
35 thousand meals a day for 580 thousand starving people. 3 planes, that's about a 100 thousand dollar delivery right there, plus other costs.
https://www.csis.org/analysis/air-supplies-gaza-commendable-political-theater-no-long-term-solution
Providing a cost estimate for an entire relief operation is difficult, but it is possible to calculate the cost of the transportation alone. Trucking costs are about $2.25 per mile, and the round trip from Cairo to Rafah is 430 miles. Therefore, one truck trip costs about $970, or $0.06 per meal.
C-130s cost about $8,000 per flight hour, and the round trip takes about four hours. Thus, one and a half C-130s delivering the same number of supplies as one truck costs $48,000, or $2.50 per meal—42 times as much as by truck.
