Gaza air drops ‘a grotesque distraction’, aid agencies warn
The leaders of the aid agency said that focusing on air falls to Gaza is a “Grotesque distraction,” that will not revers the deepening hunger crisis of the region.
After the Israeli army announced the humanitarian corridors for the UN aid convoys in the early hours of Sunday, the Gaza Strip said that he had ventilated humanitarian aid.
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Jordan are expected to make air drops in the coming days, and the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer said that the British government has been doing our best to get help to Gaza through air drops.
However, Ciarán Donnellly of the International Rescue Committee said that the help of help can never deliver the volume or quality of the need for help.
More than 100 international charities and the Human Rights Group Strip warned about mass hunger.
Gaza, ruled by Hamas, reported five more deaths due to malnutrition on Saturday and brought it to 127 since the war began. This number contains 85 children.
The World Food Program warned that one of the three gazas did not eat for days and 90,000 women and children need urgent treatment in what they are defined as “mass hunger”.
The debate on air drops emerged primarily because Gaza could not enter Gaza through traditional terrain roads.
UN’s Palestinian refugee agency UNRWA President Philippe Lazzarini said that on Saturday, air drops before “expensive, inefficient and even hunger can kill civilians.”
Lazzarini said that his organization was “equivalent of 6,000 trucks in Jordan and Egypt, and that” Green Light “is waiting for him to enter Gaza.
Political will should “remove the siege, open the doors and guarantee safe movements and guarantee honorable access to people in need”.
“Driving aid is much easier, more effective, faster, cheaper and safer. It is more honorable for the people of Gaza.”
Comments came before Israel announced that the UN convoys announced that it would be called as the humanitarian corridors determined to ensure the safe movement offering food and medicine. He did not summarize where they would be or how to work.
Israel argues that there is no restriction on helping to enter Gaza and that there is no restriction on a government spokesman who claimed that the UN has previously worked with Hamas to disrupt the distribution of aid.
The UN rejects it and says Israel prevents the ability to collect aid in Gaza with bureaucratic obstacles.
Hamas denies that he is playing help from the collection points. A recent USAID report said that there was no evidence of systematic looting.
For the first time, the Western and Arab governments did not try to get aerial help to Gaza.
Last year, the UK Royal Air Force gave 110 tons of help for 10 drops as part of an international air coalition led by Jordan.
However, according to aid agencies, these amounts will do very little to alleviate the mass hunger risks in Gaza.
Analysis by BBC found that about 160 planes would be necessary to provide enough food for each of the two million residents of Gaza.
US Central Command (Centcom) The figures of last year’s C-130 cargo aircraft, approximately 12,650 meals per plane per trip.
This means that more than 160 flights will be needed to offer a single meal for each of Gaza’s population of 2.1 million.
Jordan is thought to be about 10 C-130 and the UAE is eight.
Several aid groups warned about the dangers of lowering thousands of tons of food to Gaza with densely populated.
Shaina Low of the Norwegian Refugee Council said that when people try to gather the help of people blowing to the Mediterranean, people “drown” and the boxes “crushed people” as they fall from the sky.
Even if the drops were successful, he said, “chaos.” “People were fighting with help. People were injured.”
And fears are common about risks in Gaza. BBC, Saturday, the drops may cause “serious damage” concerned with a few vazans spoke.
A man living in the north of Strip said that the process of BBC Arabic in the Middle East Daily was “insecure” and “causes many tragedies”.
“When the help falls from the air, he carries the risk of landing directly to the tents, causing serious damages, including potentially injury and even death,” he said.
Meanwhile, the Palestinians are struggling with dehydration with hunger. A mother told the BBC that she lived without food or drink, food, bread, and even water.
“Even water longing,” he said.
Israel launched a war in Gaza in response to the attack on Hamas on 7 October 2023 against Southern Israel, and about 1,200 people were killed and 251 people were hostage.
According to the Ministry of Health operated by Hamas, more than 59,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then.
At the beginning of March, Israel implemented a total of aid aid delivery and two weeks later continued his military attack against Hamas, and a two -month ceasefire collapsed. He said he wanted to pressure the group to release the remaining Israel hostages.
Although the blockade was partially alleviated almost two months later due to an upcoming famine warning from global experts, food, medicine and fuel shortage has worsened.
Most of the Gaza population has been displaced many times and it is estimated that more than 90% of the houses are damaged or destroyed.
