Bundeswehr drops food for Gaza Strip. More aid supplies arrive in the contested area via parachutes, but the supply route remains a “drop in the ocean” The first delivery of rice and flour was parachuted from a C-130 Hercules transport aircraft over the north of the Palestinian territory on Saturday.
The next delivery is scheduled for Sunday. A week ago, a pallet whose parachute failed to open killed five people during a drop. Airdrops fell in an active combat zone, with Israeli soldiers in close proximity. Some residents of the coastal strip say that they got some food this way, as an employee of the dpa news agency reported.