Israel air drops aid into Gaza, injuring at least 11 people
We were able to look at some of the still photos from the site where the airdrop took place. It’s near the space inside the northern part of the Gaza Strip, near Beit Lahiya, along the coastal road.
Eleven people were reported with injuries, as one of these pallets fell directly on tents in that displacement site near al-Rasheed road from the northern part of the Strip.
But people were able to get some of the boxes and the food parcels on that pallet. So it did happen. And the Israeli military said it dropped seven pallets.
But according to what we hear from local sources, about five of the pallets were dropped, and people were able to get to at least three of them. The other two are in an area that is a bit far from the displacement sites in northern Gaza, and an area that is very close to where the Israeli military is stationed.
It confirms what we’ve reported in the past – that Gaza has turned into a testing lab and the Israeli military is experimenting with every attack, every policy. Similar to the failure of the notorious Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, we’ve seen air drops happening in the past.
They were not effective, they did not reach enough people, let alone the chaos and violence they’ve caused.
Israel continues to deny starvation in Gaza
The Israeli military says they’re going to be carrying out a series of actions aimed at what they say is improving the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, despite their continuous denial of starvation among the Palestinian people.
Among these moves, the army says they’re going to be conducting airdrops in the Palestinian territory. They’re also going to allow humanitarian pauses; it’s still unclear exactly how it’s going to work. And the coordinator for government activities in the territory, a sect of the Israeli army, is going to allow the UN to have safe passage of aid trucks going through Gaza.
Now, the Israeli military, in their statement, still says that they emphasise that there is “no starvation in Gaza”, and that they’re trying to refute these claims, even though they are now going to enact a new series of measures aimed at improving the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
This comes after the Israeli political echelon directed the military to do so after a call within the Israeli prime minister’s security cabinet. The military says they’re also going to be opening up new humanitarian corridors.
Israel has largely accused the UN of not distributing the aid trucks, while the UN has said that Israel has not allowed them to do so. But despite all of these efforts that Israel says they are now going to implement, they are still denying starvation in the Gaza Strip.
