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A desperate measure for a desperate land
The Philippine Star
|August 04, 2025
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Airdrops are not known for their precision.
On Thursday, after sweeping over the devastated landscape that is now the Gaza Strip, a Jordanian air force plane descended and banked. Following a brief countdown, its rear doors opened and, with two crew members tethered at the edge, pallets of food were dispatched to an uncertain fate.
The method is notoriously unreliable, the amount of food insufficient, but people in Gaza are starving and so, after a hiatus of months, Jordan is one of several countries that have resumed the drops in recent days.
"I feel bad," a load master on the flight, Saif Alzahrawy, said quietly, of the situation in Gaza. "We hope this is enough. But I want to do more."
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