In the video: the humanitarian aid trucks enter the Gaza Strip/photo: Dovrot Matpas
The White House is considering starting to drop humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip using US military planes. This, against the background of the fear of the spread of hunger, especially in the northern part of the Strip - this is what four senior American officials said.
The humanitarian aid trucks enter the Gaza Strip, November 25, 2023/Official website, spokesmen from the Israel Defense Forces
why is it important
Senior American officials said that the fact that the issue was being considered in the White House shows the extent of the Biden administration's concern about the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip and the fact that it is having difficulty increasing the amount of humanitarian aid that enters the Gaza Strip through Israel.
"The situation is really bad. We are not able to get enough aid trucks in and we need desperate measures like dropping food from airplanes in Gaza," said a senior American.
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Behind the Scenes
A senior American said that for a long time there was great skepticism within the administration regarding the idea of dropping humanitarian aid into Gaza and a refusal to even prepare such an operational plan.
At the same time, Jordan carried out several rounds of humanitarian aid drops in Gaza.
The last rounds of parachuting were even carried out with the participation of planes from France and Great Britain.
The White House has recently held discussions on the possibility of airdropping aid into Gaza using US military planes, and support for this type of action has grown in light of the fact that senior administration officials believe that this is the only way to circumvent the difficulties of delivering aid to Gaza by land.
Yes but
Senior American officials admit that airdropping aid from planes into Gaza, even on the scale that the US is able to carry out, will have a limited effect on the humanitarian crisis in the Strip. The amount of supplies that an airplane can carry is relatively small and the same as that of a truck or two aid trucks entering by land.
The American officials stated that airdropping aid from airplanes would help the population's acute need for food, but emphasized that the only way to bring aid into Gaza in the required volumes is by land, and therefore the issue that is at the top of the list of priorities is increasing access options to Gaza in order to bring hundreds of trucks into the Strip every day.
what are they saying
"We continue to work with our partners to expand the scope of aid that enters Gaza and to identify the obstacles that make it difficult for aid to reach the population that needs it," said an American official.
According to him, the chaos in Rafah and the total breakdown of law and order in the Gaza Strip severely damaged the ability to flow aid and goods both through the Rafah crossing and through the Kerem Shalom crossing, therefore the American administration is working to open another crossing through which trucks can enter Gaza.
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