Palestinians climb aid trucks to collect food in Khan Younis
Palestinians scramble to collect aid supplies from trucks that entered through Israel, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, August 12
Israeli forces continue targeting aid seekers
It has been a highly repetitive scenario unfolding every single day.
Aid seekers continue to travel long distances to the controversial GHF, visiting around eight centres in the southern and central areas, near the Netzarim Corridor, but often come under relentless Israeli attacks.
Reports from Palestinian Civil Defence members and survivors suggest that Israel has been using lethal force against these people. Several Palestinians have been killed and wounded.
This grim reality continues to escalate in the absence of any real protection inside humanitarian spaces – places meant to alleviate and ease the most severe stages of this crisis.
Gaza death toll since dawn rises to 67
At least 67 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic.
At least 14 aid seekers are among those killed by Israeli gunfire, the sources said.
Denmark to take part in Gaza aid airdrops
Denmark will soon participate in a mission to airdrop aid into Gaza, according to the country’s foreign minister.
Speaking to public broadcaster DR, Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said the airdrops are “by no means an optimal way to deliver emergency aid”. “It is a kind of emergency solution, but it is also where we are now,” he said.
The mission – coordinated by Jordan and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) – will drop aid from a C-130 aircraft that will fly over Gaza once or twice before August 22, according to Rasmussen, who did not detail the amount of aid to be provided.
International aid groups and experts have repeatedly warned that aid airdrops are inefficient and often dangerous, and instead called for Israel to allow more aid trucks to flood the strip.
Western countries, including the United Kingdom, France and Spain, have recently taken part in aid airdrops for Gaza.
WTF is this, complicit countries taking air drop selfies to deflect from their complicity and reluctance to impose sanctions / ban arms trade.
The C-130 can drop less than a trucks worth of aid. Canada dropped 10t of aid with their C-130 air drop, half a truck's worth. It's like helping battle forest fires by spitting on them. A minimum of 2,000 tons of food aid is needed daily just to feed 2 million people. That's 1 kg per person, while Israel calculated the minimum subsistence level at 1.84kg per person (2,279 calories)
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/the-mathematics-of-starvation-how-israel-caused-a-famine-in-gaza
