US completes first airdrop of humanitarian aid into Gaza

USA this Saturday completed its first airdrop of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip with the help of three military aircraft that distributed about 38,000 mealsLocal media reported this.

US Air Force Central Command used three C130 aircraft will load 66 pallets of food22 from each aircraft.

Food packages They had no water or medicine.in accordance with cnn.

Humanitarian aid organizations say these airdrops fall far short of meeting food and supply needs in the area, where more 2 million people They are in danger of starvation.

Photo: Reuters

Yesterday, US President Joe Biden announced the airdrop of food and medicine packages to the Gaza Strip and opened possibility of a sea corridor facilitate the flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave.

“The aid coming to Gaza is not enough. The lives of innocent people are at stake. “Children’s lives are at stake,” the president said at the start of a White House meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.

More than 30,200 people have died in nearly five months of war in the Gaza Strip, including 115 Gazans killed on Thursday in a chaotic incident during a food distribution in Gaza City in which Israel has admitted to opening fire but blames the number of casualties an avalanche caused by a hungry crowd rushing at the trucks.

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Source: Aristegui Noticias

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