President Biden said on Friday that the White House will begin airdropping aid and supplies to Palestinian refugees in Gaza. The move comes a day after Israeli troops fired at Palestinians during a deadly and desperate aid delivery in northern Gaza. Natalie Brand is at the White House with th...
IDF soldiers in Gaza, while humanitarian aid is seen being airdropped to Gazan residents above, February 28, 2024. (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON UNIT) Much of the airdropped supplies - including food packages, medical equipment, and fuel supplies - were for the benefit of the ongoing activity of...
In the last two weeks, the UK has worked with Jordan to drop aid, including medicine, fuel and food to Tal al Hawa Hospital in northern Gaza. As well as cost and inefficiency, the risks of airdrops include danger to those on the ground and the possibility that aid ends up in th...
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The Biden administration has warned Israel that it must increase the amount of humanitarian aid it is allowing into Gaza within the next 30 days or it could risk losing access to U.S. weapons funding.
A U.S.-built pier is in place to bring humanitarian aid to Gaza by sea, but no one will know if the new route will work until a steady stream of deliveries begins reaching starving Palestinians.
Airdrops are inefficient because only small amounts of aid can be dropped at a time - pallets of food parachuted off the back of planes. Read more: Exclusive: The company making millions from Gaza misery Hamas tells Sky News Biden's ceasefire hopes are 'wishful thinking' ...
The U.S. had been close to a formal agreement with an aid group to distribute food and other resources in Gaza once the military pier is established.
At a recent forum of the New America Foundation, scholar Walter Russell Mead reminded the audience that Israelis - and by extension all Jews - and Palestinians are the two peoples most betrayed by the history of the 20th century, albeit in vastly different scales.Rieger, Timothy...