Some 110 tonnes of humanitarian cargo were dropped on Tuesday over the Gaza Strip during an international operation. This is “the largest operation of its kind in which France has participated to date,” the general staff of the French armies told AFP on Wednesday.
In addition to France, the United Kingdom and Germany were involved in Tuesday's operation on Jordanian territory. More than 1,200 humanitarian aid trucks entered Gaza Strip between Sunday and Tuesday, including 468 on April 8, according to the Israeli army. Calls are growing for Israel to open road crossing points to pass humanitarian aid, blocked by the IsraeliArmy on the border with Gaza. The International Court of Justice ordered the Jewish state to ensure the entry of humanitarian aid “as a matter of urgency” into Gaza at the end of March. The Israeli army launched a retaliatory military operation in Gaza which left more than 33,300 dead, mostly civilians. of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, in power in the Palestinian enclave. The UN, before the war, at least 500 trucks entered daily, compared to an average of 150 in March.