Gaza Airdrops is not enough to address the humanitarian crisis – DW – 05/05/2025

In response to The deteriorating hunger crisis in GazaIsrael allowed several countries to the food platforms in the war -torn lands. On Monday, the Israel Defense Forces (ISF) said that the United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Egypt, Germany, Belgium and Canada had dropped 120 assistance packages.

Tuesday, Israel said it would reopen the goods partially To trade in Gaza through local sellers to reduce Gaza Dependence on humanitarian aid.

However, the Palestinians on the ground and humanitarian organizations say that aid is insufficient and badly distributed.

“What is dropped from the sky does not reach anyone except those who can fight others,” said Dia Al -Askad, a 50 -year -old father in six years in Gaza City. Foreign journalists are prevented from entering Gaza.

He continued some areas of projection and the strategic sites where supplies are interrupted, difficult to reach, as they often fall near or inside the Israeli -controlled military areas, known as “red areas”.

“We need to distribute assistance to all the population, not this way,” he said.

Majid Ziyad, a resident of the refugee camp in Gaza in Gaza, chanted those concerns: “The solution is not to throw food for us. People need normal and human access (to food) – unlike the animals that chase prey in the forest.”

“The worst scenario reveals”

Airrops comes in a humanitarian catastrophe that is exacerbated. The 2.2 million Gaza population faces a severe shortage, as many depend on external aid. Local food production has been largely destroyed. Throughout the war, experts warned that Gaza was on the verge of hunger.

The classification of integrated food security (IPC) warns that “the worst star scenario is revealed”, while the World Health Organization (WHO) has noted a sharp rise in mortal deaths between children last month.

Israel, which controls the borders of Gaza, cut supplies in early March to pressure agitation– A terrorist organization dedicated to many countries – saying that the group was converting supplies.

Amid the deliberate pressure, Israel resumed the delivery of limited aid in May, but it turned into the distribution sites run by the US -backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). Hundreds were killed near these distribution points, claiming to be an Israeli fire.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has repeatedly blamed Hamas for looting aid and said that Israel was “burning” through allegations of hunger in Gaza.

He said in a video posted on X.

Since the war began in October 2023, Hamas’s local health authorities have reported more than 60,000 deaths, with a lot of fear of besieged under the rubble. Local authorities do not distinguish between fighters and civilians, although the vast majority of victims are said to be women and minors.

Disagreements about Airdrops Airdrops

Humanitarian groups of air prices are the last resort due to the risks on the ground.

On Monday, it was reports that a nurse in Gaza was killed when a fallen aid platform was hit during the last round of the drops.

The United Nations Relief and Business Agency for Palestine Commissioner (UNRWA) General Philip Lazarini on X has written that Redrops is expensive and less effective than delivery operations through the crossings.

He wrote: “Air drops are at least more expensive 100 times more than trucks. Trucks carry twice the number of aids like aircraft.”

On a modern trip to Israel and the operator Palestinian territoriesThe Minister of Foreign Affairs of Germany, Johan and Ediol, acknowledged the limit of air drops and called on Israel to open land crossings to provide effective assistance.

“The wild road is very important,” he said. “Here, the Israeli government has the duty to quickly allow human and medical aid to pass safely, so that the death of mass hunger can be prevented.”

He admitted that more aid trucks enter Gaza, but added, “still insufficient,” calling for a “basic change” in Israeli policy.

Tactical stop and humanitarian corridors

Besides AireroPs, the Israeli army announced the tactical stoppage and humanitarian corridors of relief convoys in three Gaza regions last week. However, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs (OCHA) has informed the aid that enters Gaza “is still insufficient” and faces delay and risk convoys. For example, fuel delivery recently took 18 hours to travel 24 km (15 miles).

Many Palestinians were killed near GHF distribution sites or while waiting for aid convoys. Aid trucks often do not reach intended recipients due to looting, either by desperate population or black market traders.

Dalia Al -Hofy, a mother of two children in Gaza City, said that most of the aid never reaches ordinary people. Basic prices, such as flour, and sometimes up to 100-120 shekels (25 to 30 euros, 29 dollars to 35 dollars) per kilogram, out of the reach of many.

Al -Afifi said that she is as a woman, she will not be able to bypass young people trying to get food from one of the auxiliary trucks, and she will be very afraid to send a family member.

“My brother here, and I do not want him to go there and expose himself to death.”

Dia Al -Askad is also struggling to feed his children. Last week, several kilometers walked towards the Zikim area in the northern Gaza to wait for United Nations aid trucks. “I tried to get the flour, but it was impossible. I managed to seize some cans of beans and chickpeas. I simply needed food.”

Edited by Jesse and Winjard