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Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi August 22 2025, 6:30 a.m.

Help for Gaza is now supposed to fall from the sky. Planes from Israel, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates drop parachuted bundles of food and supplies meant to save lives when all other options are lost. They then crash into streets, rooftops, and tents, turning hope into panic.

Every airdrop shows the cost of survival here, where daily life is threatened not by just hunger or lack of medicine, but also the very help meant to reach starving people.

This is the new reality of aid delivery in Gaza. As Israel’s siege approaches the two-year mark, on-the-ground access to food and other crucial supplies is mostly controlled by the Israel-backed and U.S.-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, whose aid sites have become shooting grounds where the Israeli army kills hungry civilians. On July 27, Israel announced the start of airdrops for humanitarian aid, promising “safe corridors” and relief from the crushing blockade.

The aid has itself become a weapon in the literal sense: At least 124 people have been struck by falling aid packages since October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office, and 23 of them killed. The Intercept spoke to more than 10 people who were injured by or witnessed injuries from falling aid packages for this story.

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[–] ZombieMantis@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

This would be really funny if it weren't really, really depressing.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 4 days ago

Starvation imposed by the Israelis is killing far more people in Gaza than air drops. And if the Israelis let aid trucks in, there wouldn't be a need for air drops.

[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

With actual headlines like this, how is The Onion still in business?