PNN – International institutions, including the UNRWA agency, considered the Israeli regime’s deceptive display of airdropping aid to Gaza as part of misleading public opinion about the famine disaster in the strip, emphasizing that the only way out is to open land crossings.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network, The Israeli regime, which has imposed the most brutal blockade on the Gaza Strip since March and has starved more than two million Palestinians in the strip, and death from starvation in Gaza has become a common occurrence, announced yesterday in a dramatic maneuver that it has begun airdropping aid to Gaza.
This dramatic maneuver, which coincided with the spread of famine and hunger throughout Gaza, was accompanied by strong domestic and foreign reactions, with various parties emphasizing that Gaza does not need air shows; rather, all land crossings must be reopened immediately and trucks must enter the strip regularly daily to deliver aid to Gaza.
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In this context, Philippe Lazzarini, Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), stated that the proposal to drop aid from the air into Gaza is merely an attempt to divert public opinion and a cover to hide the reality of the humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip.
Lazzarini added: Dropping aid from the air does not change the reality of the famine in Gaza. This method is costly and ineffective, and may even cost the lives of starving civilians.
He added: The arrival of aid by land is an easier, faster, cheaper, more effective, safer, and more dignified method for the people of Gaza, and the man-made famine disaster can only be solved through political will.
Airdropping aid is another step in engineering hunger against Gaza
The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Watch, in turn, stated in a statement to this effect: Dropping aid from the air into Gaza is a humiliating method and does not help solve the hunger crisis in Gaza. We call for the opening of land crossings leading to Gaza to allow sufficient aid to enter.
The human rights organization emphasized: The airdrop of aid is another step in the humiliation of Palestinians, the violation of their dignity, and the engineering of starvation to serve Israel’s political and military goals. Given the dense population of Gaza in an area that constitutes less than 15 percent of the Strip, the airdrop of aid is an extremely dangerous event for civilian lives.
The statement continued: After months of severe hunger, airdrops of aid do not meet even the minimum humanitarian needs in Gaza and cannot resolve the catastrophic situation resulting from Israel’s hunger war against Gaza.
The organization warned about the Zionist regime’s deception to reduce international pressure against the regime, stating that due to Israel’s hunger war against Gaza, 55 deaths due to starvation have been officially recorded in just one week, and this number is still rising.
Last year, several Arab and Western countries, including the United States, dropped aid boxes into the Gaza Strip by parachute during the early stages of the Israeli regime’s suffocating blockade, leading to the deaths of a large number of civilians waiting to receive the aid.
The Israeli regime’s deceptive display of airdropping aid comes at a time when the regime has imposed a comprehensive and oppressive blockade on Gaza for months, preventing more than 2 million people from having access to a single morsel of bread.