Air dropping humanitarian aid – propaganda and saving face

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The Jordanian air force has dropped humanitarian aid on Southern Gaza. Additionally, Jordan allegedly sent humanitarian trucks entering northern Gaza: the first convoy to reach this region is in the video below. The #AirDropAidForGaza campaign aired on Jordan’s ‘City Pulse’ TV Show [Nabd al Balad] on Sunday, according to Sarah Wilkinson who created a petition for an airdrop.

Some are now calling it Jordanian propaganda because the aid has been dropped in places difficult for people to access.

Convoy entering Northern Gaza
Children screaming with joy for a change – for the food they are getting from the airdrops
Jordan’s airforce drops food from the sky from the south to central Gaza: ALL the pallets of food were retrieved
A composite of today’s #AirDropAidForGaza as Jordan’s courageous airforce makes a historic airdrop along the coast of Gaza
Claims that some air drop packages had expired dates.
Propaganda?
Al Jazeera reporting on people hearing about the convoys and airdrops and rushing in the cold and danger to wait for them.
With Israel’s approval to appease angry people?
27 Feb 2024: aid being dropped again on the 27th by joint French, Egyptian and Jordanian air force. Obviously this has to be in coordination with Israel.

Update 2 March 2024

The C-130 of the USAF that dropped aid on Khan Yunis in Gaza this morning, took off from Al Udeid US Base in Qatar.

Egypt drops aid – 2 March 2024

3 March 2024: IOF bombs an aid truck belonging to a Kuwaiti charity org in Deir Al-Balah in central Gaza Strip, which resulted in 8 martyrs and several wounded.

Air dropping unreachable
Heavy fire as aid convoys arrive in Kuwait St.

Air drop kills 5

8 March 2024: Five people have been killed and several injured after airdropped parcels fell on a crowd of people waiting to collect aid when parachutes failed to open. “Dropping aid in this way is flashy propaganda rather than a humanitarian service,” said Gaza’s media office

Muhammad Al-Sheikh, Head of Emergency Care Department at Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City confirmed five people were killed in the incident.

In a video obtained by CNN on Friday, an airdrop goes wrong when the parachute on a pallet malfunctions. The pallet and its contents can be seen falling at a high speed towards a residential building near the Fairoz Towers in western Gaza.

As the aid races towards the ground, free-falling bags are also seen coming apart in a shower of debris, and later seen and heard impacting the ground with audible loud thuds.

While most of the other parachutes appear to have deployed properly, the pallets are still falling at a potentially dangerous speed, which could have made it difficult for anyone to get out of its way as it touched down on the ground.

14 April: The Palestinian child Zain Orouk survived the bombing of his family’s home in Gaza by Israeli warplanes, but was killed this morning when an airdropped aid box fell on him.