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SvennoJ on 06 August 2025
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Israeli military claims more than 100 aid packages dropped into Gaza today

The Israeli military says that over the past few hours, “107 aid packages, containing food for the residents of the Gaza Strip, were airdropped by five different countries”.

It said it will continue to work in order “to improve the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, along with the international community” and refuted what it said were “false claims of deliberate starvation in Gaza”.

On July 29, the United Nations-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) issued its gravest warning yet: That “worst-case scenario of famine is currently playing out in the Gaza Strip”.

Despite the suffering, Israel allowed just 36 aid trucks into Gaza on Saturday, even as 22,000 loaded trucks remain at the crossings, waiting to enter, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.

Before October 2023, about 500 aid trucks entered Gaza daily – a number that not been reached since. In March, Israel completely blocked all exits and aid, only opening up for a tiny fraction of the needed aid in the past two months.

Once food is offloaded at the border holding areas, agencies must request permission for convoys to enter and distribute in Gaza. But approvals are inconsistent. According to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP), only 76 out of 138 convoy requests were approved between July 19 and 25.

Another 3 trucks of aid dropped into the sand. Do they think that number is actually impressive?


Gaza airdrops pose ‘grave danger’, Palestinian interior ministry says

The Palestinian Ministry of Interior and National Security has released a statement warning against “the catastrophic effects” airdrops of humanitarian aid are having on people in Gaza.

“The Israeli occupation exploits these aiddrops as part of its policy of engineered starvation, fostering chaos and thuggery, and fostering the spread of gangs of thieves and bandits,” the ministry said.

It explained that many Palestinians have been injured – and some have even been killed – as boxes of aid fell from the sky onto their tents and homes. The amount of assistance being airdropped into Gaza amounts to only “a drop in the ocean” of what’s needed, the ministry added.

“The Ministry of Interior affirms that the negative effects of parachute drops and the chaos, destruction, and loss of life and property they create are far greater than any benefit they provide to our starving people,” it said, calling on countries participating in airdrops to reconsider.

“The optimal way to provide relief to our people and end the humanitarian crisis and systematic starvation is to open the land crossings and allow the flow of abundant quantities of humanitarian aid and food supplies on a daily basis and for extended periods.”



Palestinian football icon killed while waiting for food in Gaza

Suleiman Al-Obaid, a former Palestine national team player, was killed in an Israeli strike targeting civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in southern Gaza, the Palestine Football Association (PFA) has said.

Also known as the Pele of Palestinian football, al-Obaid began his career with his home club, the Khadamat Al-Shati Club. He later joined the Al-Amari Youth Center Club in the occupied West Bank, then the Gaza Sports Club, before ultimately making it to the national team, PFA said.

“During his long career, Al-Obeid scored more than 100 goals, making him one of the brightest stars of Palestinian football,” the association said.

The football star is the 662nd member of the sports community to have been killed in Gaza since the start of the war, it added.

Rights advocates have been calling for FIFA, football’s world governing body, to ban Israel for abuses against Palestinian footballers. Israeli clubs based in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank also participate in Israel’s football competitions  – a practice in breach of FIFA’s discrimination rules.