According to a media report, the Jordanian air force dropped medical supplies over the Gaza Strip. This was reported by the Times of Israel news platform on Tuesday evening, citing a corresponding statement from Jordan’s King Abdullah II.
Israel has imposed an embargo against uncontrolled aid deliveries to the Gaza Strip. According to the BBC, Israel confirmed a coordinated action with Jordan after speculation about whether the action had been coordinated.
“Duty to help brothers and sisters”
Around midnight, medical supplies and medicines were parachuted into a Jordanian field hospital in Gaza, Jordan’s king said. “It is our duty to help our brothers and sisters who were injured in the war against Gaza. We will always be at the side of our Palestinian brothers,” he wrote.
Israel demands that all aid supplies, which so far only reach the southern Gaza Strip through the Egyptian Rafah border crossing, be verified. The objective is to prevent the smuggling of weapons to the Islamic group Hamas, which governs Gaza and which carried out a major attack on Israel on October 7th.
Humanitarian organizations complain that the aid supplies that have so far reached the Gaza Strip by truck are far from sufficient.