US EditionCommentary: Air-dropping food into Gaza is a 'smokescreen' as starvation worsens
GAZA STRIP, JUL 30 – Israel allows 70 aid trucks daily amid severe malnutrition affecting 90,000 women and children, while UAE and Jordan airdropped 25 tonnes of food last Sunday, UN says.
- On July 27 and 28, 2025, the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, and Egypt dropped multiple shipments of humanitarian aid totaling 25 metric tons over Gaza, following a partial relaxation of Israel’s blockade.
- These airdrops are a response to the blockade Israel has maintained since March 2025, restricting entry to roughly 70 trucks daily—far short of the 500 to 600 trucks needed each day to provide sufficient aid for the over two million residents of Gaza who are at risk of starvation.
- Aid workers have criticized the air deliveries as insufficient and unsafe, noting most drops occur in active combat zones and cannot replace essential specialized nutritional care needed by 90,000 malnourished women and children.
- Humanitarian officials including Ciaran Donnelly urged Israel to fully open Gaza’s borders to allow adequate aid and personnel, while experts like Alex de Waal described the famine as unprecedented and called a ceasefire essential.
- Despite the partial blockade lift welcomed by the UN, growing international pressure signals urgent need for expanded aid access and durable peace to prevent further deaths and long-term harm in Gaza.
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On Sunday, 27 July, under international pressure, Israel announced daily humanitarian breaks in Gaza. These interruptions aim to allow the delivery of food, especially by air and via certain road crossing points such as Zikim, north of the enclave. But on the ground, the distribution turns into chaos: on the outskirts of trucks carrying the goods, dozens of Gazans risk their lives to extract food, which some then sell to the markets.
Planes from the United Arab Emirates, Jordan and, for the first time, Egypt have dropped 52 tons of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in the last few hours, the Israeli military said on Tuesday, according to The Times of Israel (ToI). Germany will join the aid drop by the weekend at the latest, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.
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