Look Jordan drops food and essential supplies into Gaza using French military aircraft

The Jordanian army said on Monday it had carried out a series of humanitarian deliveries of food and other supplies into the besieged Gaza Strip, one of them by French military aircraft.

The Jordanian military, under the direction of Jordan’s King Abdullah II, made “four air drops of aid to the people of Gaza,” a statement said.

The operation came on the same day that two human rights groups accused Israel of further limiting humanitarian aid to Gaza – where the UN has warned of famine – despite an order from the UN’s top court.

Jordan has conducted a total of 16 air-drop operations since the war began on October 7 between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.

Previously announced airdrops, including a joint operation with the Netherlands, sent medical and other aid to a Jordanian field hospital in northern Gaza.

The Jordanian army statement said Monday’s operation was aimed at “delivering aid directly to the population and extending it from north to south along the Gaza Strip coast.”

“This included relief and food supplies, including prepared meals of high nutritional value, to alleviate the suffering of the people of the Gaza Strip,” the statement said.

“Four C-130 aircraft, one of them belonging to the French armed forces,” made the delivery, it said.

Goods floated down on parachutes from transport planes, including in the southern Gaza Strip, where about 1.4 million Gazans had gathered.

In November Israel said it had coordinated air strikes with Jordan.

According to an AFP tally of official figures, Hamas’ unprecedented attack on October 7 resulted in the deaths of about 1,160 people in Israel, mostly civilians.

Israeli retaliatory bombardments and ground attacks have killed at least 29,782 people, mostly women and children, according to the latest count from the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.

(This story has not been edited by News18 staff and is published from a syndicated news agency feed – AFP)