TimesAsiaNews.com | Gaza – Planes dropped aid boxes on the cities of Rafah and Khan Younis on Tuesday (27/2), where hundreds of Palestinians gathered to try to get aid dropped from the sky over the Gaza Strip.
Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and France dropped tons of humanitarian aid over Gaza, the Egyptian military said.
Most humanitarian aid for Gaza is delivered through the Rafah border crossing, which borders Egypt.
The United Nations says 138 aid trucks entered the Gaza Strip Tuesday.
Aid agencies say they face a complex vetting process that ultimately allows little aid to enter Gaza despite the huge need there. Israel said the inspection was necessary for security reasons.
UN agencies and aid agencies say continued violence, the Israeli military’s refusal to facilitate aid deliveries and chaos in Gaza are further complicating the entry of aid into the enclave.
The World Food Programme (WFP) said last week it was suspending food deliveries to the isolated northern Gaza region, where according to the UN children’s agency one-sixth of children there suffer from acute malnutrition.
A UN report last December suggested that a quarter of Gaza’s population, which totals 2.3 million, was starving.
Israeli attacks on Gaza have killed more than 29,700 people, mostly women and children, according to the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. The ministry did not separate casualties from fighters, civilians from civilians.
So far, the only ceasefire in the war will take place in November 2023, during which some 100 hostages held by Hamas are released – mostly women, children and foreigners – in exchange for the release of some 240 Palestinians held by Israel.
About 130 Israeli hostages remain in Gaza, but Israel says about a quarter have been killed. (voa/tanews)
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