Israel-Hamas war, Gaza genocide

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Report: Countries that airdropped aid refused to bring it by land due to lack of trust in Israel

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that several of the countries that Israel has recently allowed to drop desperately needed aid over Gaza have refused a request to bring in aid via trucks on the ground.

Haaretz cited the Israeli army, which said that the countries did not believe Israel when it told them that the aid would reach those in need.

Haaretz did not name the countries in question.

Countries such as the UAE, the UK and Holland have been dropping aid on Gaza since late last month, much to the dismay of the UN and other international humanitarian organisations.

Critics say that the airdrops of aid amount to a drop in the ocean of what’s needed, and that they are humiliating for Palestinians, who are forced to scramble and fight to get to the aid packages.

What’s more, the airdrops have proved dangerous for Palestinians, with a 15-year-old boy being killed yesterday after he was struck by a falling aid pallet.


So they don't trust Israel to distribute the aid and instead decided to pretty much burn the aid money on for sure aid not reaching those in need...

Two pages back:

Aid drops providing less than 1 percent of Gaza’s food needs

"All of the combined airdrops of aid into the Gaza Strip over the last week have totalled about the equivalent of 15 aid trucks, which is less than 1 percent of what Gaza needs on a normal day for basic survival”.

Shehada, a senior fellow with the European Council on Foreign Relations, says “complicit countries” are participating in parachuting aid into Gaza, “not to address the hunger, not to end it, but to sustain it [and] cover it up” with “headline-grabbing gestures”.

Yeah that last line nails it.