Egypt, Jordan, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Qatar and France They dropped humanitarian aid from the air the Gaza Strip, The spokesman for the Egyptian Armed Forces, Gharib Abdel Hafez, reported today.
“Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Qatar and France carried out an operation to launch… humanitarian aid on the Gaza Strip,” the spokesman was quoted as saying by the news agency. Sputnik.
Humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip
The news channel Al Qahera, citing high-ranking Egyptian sources, reported that the Egyptian Air Forcewith the participation of Jordan and the UAE, airlifted more than 45 tons of aid to the northern and central areas of the Gaza Strip.
The same source stated that it is about lEgypt’s first operation and that the aid was distributed in the northern and central part of the strip, in addition to The delivery of another 50 tons of aid is being planned. The handover comes a day after the Jordanian army carried out a similar operation.
How the delivery of humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip was planned
Images showed thousands of starving Palestinians in the Gazan town of Deir el-Balah, in the south-central enclave, jumping into the sea to collect aid. While, The Jordanian army also announced today on its website a new aid launch operation from the air, after having carried out yesterday the largest operation of this type since the beginning of Israel’s war against Gaza.
The army explained that six C-130 aircraft, three of them from the Royal Jordanian Air Force, took off from the capital Amman and that others three aircraft from the UAE, Egypt and France also participated in the operation, according to the Al Jazeera news network. The Jordanian army also published images showing King Abdullah II of Jordan inside one of the planes while the operation was taking place.
The critical situation in the Gaza Strip
The situation in the Gaza Strip continues to worsen and 2.2 million peoplethe vast majority of the population, face a “mass famine”, according to the UN.
He Israel ArmyHe began an offensive on the Gaza Strip in response to attacks by the Islamist movement Hamas, which They left 1,200 dead and 240 hostages, among them about twenty Argentines. Since then, the Gazan authorities They reported the deaths of almost 29,900 Palestinians.
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