PARIS (Reuters) – British paratroopers recreating an airdrop behind German defences to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day were met by French customs officials at a makeshift border checkpost. Moments after the paratroopers had hit the ground and gathered up their chutes, they formed an orderly queue and handed over their passports for inspection by […]
It is all over in seconds. The aircraft slows, lifts its nose and 12, perfectly wrapped pallets of humanitarian assistance slide off the open ramp at the back. One minute ago, 10 tonnes of food and water was there, the next it was floating gently by parachute in the southwesterly breeze, touching down on the […]
Germany’s military is prepared to continue its aid flights over Gaza for as long as necessary, the Ministry of Defence in Berlin said on Friday. “We are reacting flexibly to the need,” said a spokesman. “We are ready as long as we, together with our partners, consider these aid flights to be necessary, [we] are […]
German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius has given the go-ahead for the country’s air force to drop urgently needed supplies over the Gaza Strip, joining several other countries that have airdropped aid on the besieged Palestinian territory. Pistorius signed a corresponding order to the Bundeswehr armed forces on Wednesday, dpa has learned. It comes after Germany’s […]
An international effort gathered pace Friday to get desperately needed humanitarian relief into Gaza by sea, in the latest bid to counter overland access restrictions blamed on Israel as it battles Hamas militants. The dire conditions more than five months into the war have led some countries to airdrop food and other assistance over the […]
International aid groups are criticizing a Biden administration plan to airdrop food to desperately hungry Palestinians, saying that such a move would be ineffective and would distract from more meaningful measures like pushing Israel to lift its partial siege of the Gaza Strip. “Airdrops do not and cannot substitute for humanitarian access,” the International Rescue […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military C-130 cargo planes on Saturday dropped food in pallets over Gaza, three U.S. officials said, two days after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops. Three planes from Air Forces Central dropped 66 bundles […]
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden announced Friday that the U.S. will drop food aid into the Gaza Strip, noting that the humanitarian aid flowing into the region for Palestinians is insufficient. “Aid flowing into Gaza is nowhere nearly enough… lives are on the line,” Biden said as he announced the decision about the airdrops during […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday announced that the U.S. will begin airdropping sorely needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza amid the ongoing Israel-Hamas war. Here’s what you need to know: WHEN WILL THE AIRDROPS START? Biden said the airdrops will be coordinated with Jordan, which has conducted several rounds of airdrops into Gaza […]
STORY: The Jordanian army arranged on Monday the biggest air drop operation so far to deliver aid to Gaza where the mostly displaced population of 2.3 million is facing crisis levels of hunger, an army statement said. The operation deployed four C-130 planes including one belonging to the French air force, army spokesperson Mustafa Hiyari […]