Another 126 aid packages containing food were airdropped into the Gaza Strip on Friday, according to the Israeli military.
Several countries – Spain, France, Germany, Egypt, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates and Israel – coordinated the air drop, according to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
French President Emmanuel Macron posted to X about the aid drop, thanking “Jordanian, Emirati, and German partners for their support.”
Israel began allowing airdrops of aid into the enclave last week, but aid groups have criticized the delivery method as expensive, impractical and potentially dangerous.
“Airdrops are at least 100 times more costly than trucks. Trucks carry twice as much aid as planes,” Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, the main UN agency for Palestinian refugees, said Friday.
“If there is political will to allow airdrops – which are highly costly, insufficient & inefficient, there should be similar political will to open the road crossings,” he said in a post on X.
