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Mile after mile of gray rubble – the view from a airplane dropping support to Gaza

By Editorial Board Published July 28, 2025 5 Min Read
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Mile after mile of gray rubble – the view from a airplane dropping support to Gaza

We’re on our approach to Gaza with the Jordanian army.

The plane is scorching and noisy and as we get nearer, the ambiance will get extra tense. Aircrew gesture with their arms to inform us what number of minutes there are to go. Fifteen. Six. One.

The Jordanian army C-130 flies out over the ocean earlier than banking and heading inland for Gaza. The parachutes, hooked up to the highest of every of the eight pallets, are ready for the drop.

As land approaches, I look down. The bottom is trendy and constructed up – we’re nonetheless over southern Israel.

Then just a few brief minutes later, it is clear we have crossed Gaza’s border.

The bottom turns gray, the shapes of buildings disappear, there are not any vehicles, no individuals.

You’ll be able to see the define of communities and villages that are actually flattened. Mile after mile of gray rubble.

This mission by the Royal Jordanian Air Drive is without doubt one of the first support drop flights since Israel introduced they might resume. It’s carrying eight tonnes of meals and child method.

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Jordanian army personnel load support parcels on to a airplane in Zarqa, Jordan. Pic: Reuters

Jordanian military personnel load aid parcels onto a plane that will be airdropped over Gaza, in Zarqa, Jordan.
Pic: Reuters

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Pic: Reuters

Overseas nations know this can be a deeply flawed means of delivering support – highway convoys are far simpler and might carry much more – however the Jordanian flight crew say the necessity in Gaza is so pressing, it is merely an try and do one thing.

When the plane ramp opens, the help is pushed out and it is gone in seconds.

The parachutes appear peaceable as they open and their fall slows. However dropping meals from the sky is a harmful and undignified approach to feed individuals.

On the bottom it is chaos.

Our colleagues in Gaza say the combating for meals has grow to be deadly – gangs are actually punching and stabbing individuals to achieve it first. Most critically, it isn’t attending to the weakest. To those that actually need it.

One man turns into emotional as he describes racing to seek out meals and leaving with nothing.

“I came only for my son,” he says. “I wouldn’t come here if it was just for me. When you have a child, they need bread.”

He is an engineer in regular occasions and appears in disbelief that his life has come to this. “The aid comes from the sky and we have to run after it. I’ve never had to do this in my life.”

Jordanian military personnel air drop aid parcels over Gaza, July 28, 2025. REUTERS/Jehad Shelbak

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Jordanian army personnel drop support parcels over Gaza. Pic: Reuters

Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians over Central Gaza Strip as seen from Khan Younis Monday, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

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Humanitarian support is airdropped over the central Gaza Strip, as seen from Khan Younis. Pic: AP

It’s hoped Israel’s humanitarian pauses in combating will quickly improve meals distribution by highway nevertheless it’s very unclear how that’s going.

Hospitals in Gaza have reported one other 14 deaths from hunger within the final 24 hours, the Gaza well being ministry mentioned on Monday.

Airstrikes killed one other a minimum of 78 Palestinians throughout Gaza on Monday, native well being officers mentioned.

We can’t confirm these numbers as a result of Israel has not allowed worldwide journalists entry to Gaza.

And Monday’s flight got here with strict media situations.

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We had been advised the Israeli aspect had warned that any pictures of Gaza filmed from the air might end in these support flights being cancelled.

However Israel’s tight grip has not stopped the pictures from Gaza getting out, horrifying individuals around the globe.

The query now’s what extra the worldwide neighborhood will do about it.

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