In the video: the humanitarian aid trucks enter the Gaza Strip/photo: Dovrot Matpas
The President of the United States, Joe Biden, announced today that his country will begin dropping humanitarian aid from American Air Force planes in Gaza in the coming days.
According to Biden, the aid that has flowed to Gaza so far is not enough.
The president said that the United States will try to overcome all obstacles to bring more aid into Gaza, and that it is trying to reach a cease-fire agreement to allow the introduction of aid.
Humanitarian aid is dropped in Gaza, March 1, 2024/Reuters
Senior American officials said last week 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.
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.
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Senior American officials admit that airdropping aid from airplanes into Gaza, even to the extent that the U.S. 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 noted that airdropping aid from airplanes Help with the population's acute need for food, but emphasize that the only way to bring aid to 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 to bring hundreds of trucks into the Strip every day.
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