US EditionGermany’s Merz announces Gaza aid airlift, mulls upping ante on Israel
GERMANY, JUL 29 – Germany plans an airlift with Jordan and European partners to deliver vital food and medical aid amid Gaza’s worsening humanitarian crisis, with 74% of Germans supporting stronger pressure on Israel.
- German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced on July 28, 2025, plans to launch a humanitarian airlift to deliver aid into Gaza with Jordan's support from Berlin.
- This initiative follows escalating international concern over Gaza's humanitarian crisis triggered by the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack and the ensuing Israeli military response.
- Israel allowed 120 aid trucks into Gaza during a ten-hour military pause, with the Israeli military's COGAT unit stating the trucks are awaiting distribution.
- Merz called Israel's decision an 'important first step' but stressed the aid provides limited relief and urged an immediate end to the humanitarian suffering in Gaza.
- The planned aid airlift and increased international pressure, including possible sanctions discussed in Germany, imply escalating efforts to alleviate Gaza's crisis and seek a political resolution.
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The UN Secretary-General stressed that food, water, medicine and fuel must flow freely and without obstacles in the coming period.
For a long time, German diplomacy with a view to the Gaza war was characterised by helplessness. This is changing at the moment: Merz is definitely not Scholz. He has forged an alliance with Great Britain and France that can quite influence.
Germany’s Merz says Gaza aid airdrops could start as soon as Wednesday
BERLIN: German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that two of the country’s aircraft could fly aid airdrop missions from Jordan to Gaza as soon as Wednesday, calling the help a small but important signal. “This work may only make a small contribution to humanitarian aid, but it sends an important signal: We are here, we are in the region,” said Merz at a press conference alongside
Two aircraft of the Bundeswehr are on their way to Jordan. From there they are supposed to supply the people in the Gaza Strip from the air. However, the aid organization Doctors without Borders doubts the meaningfulness. The AfD sees the neighbouring countries as a duty.
Action together with Jordan, France and UK: Journalist Claudia Kade explains what Merz intends to do with it.
More aid has been coming back to the Gaza Strip for a few days. Germany and Jordan also want to set up an airlift to provide for the Palestinian population in need. According to Medico International, this is not the means of choice.
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