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Jordan and four other countries carried out a new aid drop on Sunday March 10 on the Gaza Strip where war and famine threaten hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, according to the Jordanian army and a journalist from the Agence France-Presse (AFP) on board a Jordanian plane.
During this operation, which lasted three hours, the packages were dropped on several areas of the besieged Palestinian territory, where the destruction is clearly visible from the sky. The Jordanian army said in a statement that American, French, Belgian and Egyptian planes took part in the operation.
For the UN, which warns against “widespread famine almost inevitable” in Gaza, airdrops, as well as sending aid by sea, cannot replace the land route.
Israel will ensure aid reaches ‘those who need it’
Israel will ensure that humanitarian aid passing through a maritime corridor reaches residents of the Gaza Strip directly, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said on Sunday. “We will ensure that help reaches those who need it”Mr. Gallant said from a military boat off the coast of Gaza.
On Friday, the European Union and the United States announced that they were preparing a maritime humanitarian corridor from Cyprus, located some 370 kilometers from Gaza. A first ship loaded with 200 tonnes of food is ready to leave the Mediterranean island.
The aid will contribute “to achieve one of the main objectives of the war: the collapse of Hamas’ power”assured Mr. Gallant on the X networkwhile Israel accuses the Palestinian movement, which took power in Gaza in 2007, of diverting humanitarian aid to the territory.
President Biden ‘wrong,’ says Netanyahu
Joe Biden, who criticized the conduct of the war in Gaza, “wrong”, declared the Israeli Prime Minister in an interview on Sunday with the Politico newspaper. The American president said Saturday that Benjamin Netanyahu “did more harm than good to Israel” by his conduct of the war in Gaza.
“I don’t know exactly what the president meant, but if he meant that I am pursuing a personal policy against the wishes of the majority of Israelis, and that I am going against the interests of Israel, then he is wrong on both points »estimated Mr. Netanyahu.
“First, I am not pursuing a private policy, it is a policy supported by an overwhelming majority of Israelis. They support the action we have taken to destroy the Hamas terrorist battalions.”continued the Israeli Prime Minister. “They also support my position that we must categorically reject the attempt to impose a Palestinian state on us”he added, while the two-state solution is being pushed internationally.
Dozens dead in Gaza after Israeli raids
The Israeli army again dropped bombs on Gaza on Sunday, killing dozens on the eve of Ramadan. According to Hamas authorities, at least 85 Palestinians have died in the last twenty-four hours in more than sixty nighttime strikes which also hit homes in central and southern Gaza, especially in Khan Younes.
At least thirteen people died when shells fell on displaced people’s tents in the Al-Mawasi region, between Khan Younes and Rafah, said the health ministry of the Gaza Strip, administered by Hamas. Still according to this ministry, more than 31,000 people, the majority civilians, have died in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the war.
The Israeli army, whose soldiers operate in large areas of Palestinian territory, reported around thirty Palestinian fighters killed in the last twenty-four hours in central Gaza and Khan Younes.
Lebanese Hezbollah launches dozens of rockets into northern Israel
The Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah announced that it had launched dozens of rockets on a town in northern Israel on Sunday, after Israeli strikes the day before left five people dead, including three members of the party. Exchanges of fire are almost daily between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Hamas at war since October 7 against Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah said it launched in the morning “dozens of Katyusha type rockets” on the moshav (agricultural village) of Meron, eight kilometers from the border. Meron is home to a major military air traffic control base that the pro-Iranian party has targeted several times since the start of the year.
The training said it had acted “in response to Israeli attacks against southern villages and civilian homes”, notably the attack targeting the house of a party fighter in Khirbet Selm the day before. A woman and another person were also killed in this strike, according to the official Lebanese agency ANI.
“Approximately thirty-five launches from Lebanon have been identified towards Israeli territory, a number of which were intercepted”, for its part, the Israeli army announced. The statement added that the Israeli air force targeted several “infrastructure” of the party, including “a military structure where Hezbollah terrorists were identified in Khirbet Selm”.