Gaza Air Drops
Updated 2024-04-01
2024-03-08 Airdrop of aid packages kills 5 children in Gaza, Palestinian officials say Airdropped aid packages from an unidentified country killed five children and injured several others in Gaza on Friday, Palestinian officials said. “Press reports that U.S. air drops resulted in civilian casualties on the ground are false, as we’ve confirmed that all of our aid bundles landed safely on the ground,” Ryder said during a press briefing.
The Government Media Office in Gaza criticized air drops as “useless” and called for the immediate opening of land crossings into Gaza to more efficiently deliver aid to the approximately 2,400,000 people suffering from water and food shortages. Adam Bouloukos, a senior official at the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees-West Bank, told ABC News that airdrops are “dangerous” and a “drop in the bucket” in terms of need. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/airdrop-of-aid-packages-kills-5-children-in-gaza-palestinian-officials-say/ar-BB1jzVsJ?
2024-03-04 Theatre of Cruelty—And Its Double: From Aaron Bushnell to Biden’s Gaza Airdrop The head of Save the Children described the Biden Administration’s recent airdrop of food into Gaza airdrop as “theater.” That it is. So is the Vice President’s sudden “demand” for a six-week ceasefire. For that matter, so is the ceasefire itself — if it happens. It’s likely to be characterized by ongoing immiseration and slow death, to be followed by the faster forms of killing.
It’s an American theater of cruelty whose real purpose is to deliver votes for the president, not meals for the starving. It will end as it began: in fire. The question is, what kind of fire and for whom?
The American airdrop consisted of 38,000 “MRE’s,” or “Meals Ready to Eat,” those unwholesome feed bags the US military buys by the millions More than 2,100,000 people are starving in Gaza; the children are already dying. If divided evenly, every person in Gaza would receive precisely 1.8 percent of each bag pictured above – that is, if they got any of it, which is unlikely amidst all the US-backed chaos. Hunger can’t be cured homeopathically, with microscopic doses. https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/gaza-airdrop-aaron-bushnell
2024-03-03 Biden Admin Airdrops 38,000 Meals Into Gaza as US-Armed Israeli Military Starves Millions “Biden is airdropping food (expensive, inefficient, potentially dangerous) because he won’t condition massive U.S. military aid and arms sales on Israel ending its obstruction of most ground aid deliveries.”
The U.S. military on Saturday executed the first of what’s expected to be a series of humanitarian aid airdrops into the Gaza Strip, parachuting packages containing 38,000 meals to the besieged enclave’s coastline as the territory’s entire population—roughly 2.2 million people—faces the imminent threat of starvation due to Israel’s ongoing assault and blockade.
The airdrop, coordinated with the Jordanian military, came days after Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of desperate Gazans near a convoy of aid trucks in the northern part of the territory, which Israel has almost completely cut off from humanitarian assistance.
Biden administration officials said Saturday that “the aid flowing into Gaza is nowhere near enough and nowhere near fast enough,” but the White House has done nothing to force the Israeli government to stop obstructing ground-based deliveries, which have fallen in recent weeks and become virtually impossible in much of the territory because of Israel’s restrictions and repeated attacks on aid workers. https://www.commondreams.org/news/us-gaza-airdrops?
2024-03-02 US airdrops: Normal in ‘hostile’ env., not in areas occupied by allies Critics believe the US airdrops in Gaza are a major sign of weakness that shows just how much the country is unwilling to stand up to Israeli cruelty. Airdrops of humanitarian aid to Gaza may not be necessary if pressure on the Israeli occupation was effective, Patrick Wintour of The Guardian reported.
US President Joe Biden announced on Friday plans to carry out a first military airdrop of food and supplies into Gaza, a day after the Israeli occupation’s al-Rasheed street massacre, which resulted in the killing of over 115 Palestinian martyrs. Tens of others were wounded in the Thursday attack that targeted Palestinian civilians who were waiting in line to receive aid packages in the northern Gaza Strip, https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/us-airdrops–normal-in–hostile–env—not-in-areas-occupied
2024-03-01 Sanders Says US Gaza Aid Airdrops ‘No Substitute for Sustained Ground Deliveries’ “Israel MUST open the borders and allow the United Nations to deliver supplies in sufficient quantities.” Independent U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders on Friday gave a qualified endorsement of American military airdrops of desperately needed humanitarian supplies into Gaza, echoing assertions from other human rights defenders that Israel must allow massive, immediate ground shipments of aid to reach the bombed and besieged Palestinians who are beginning to starve to death. https://www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-sanders-israel-2667410239
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