[News] Israeli aid airdrop injures Palestinians in north Gaza; Hamas condemns move

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 Israeli aid airdrop injures Palestinians in north Gaza; Hamas condemns move

*At least 11 wounded when Israel drops aid pallets on tents for displaced
people amid hunger crisis in Gaza.*
[image: a long row of people stand holding empty pots]
Palestinians queue to get hot meals from aid organisations in Gaza City on
July 26, 2025 [Khames Alrefi/Anadolu]
Published On 27 Jul 2025 -
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At least 11 Palestinians have been injured due to aid airdrops in northern
Gaza as one of the pallets fell directly on tents where displaced people
are living, medical sources say.

The Israeli military on Saturday announced that it “carried out an airdrop
of humanitarian aid as part of the ongoing efforts to allow and facilitate
the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip”.

But local sources in Gaza told Al Jazeera some of the aid pallets hit tents
near al-Rasheed Road, a main road that runs along the coast of the enclave
from north to south.

Many other pallets were dropped in areas far from the displacement sites in
northern Gaza and close to where the Israeli military is stationed.

Meanwhile, after months of international pressure, the Israeli military on
Sunday began a daily “tactical pause”
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/27/israeli-military-begins-daily-tactical-pause-in-parts-of-starving-gaza>
of its operations in parts of Gaza and established new aid corridors.


   - [image: Israeli forces seizes Gaza-bound Handala ship, husband of
   activist on board speaks to Al Jazeera]
   Israeli forces seizes Gaza-bound Handala ship, husband of activist on
   board speaks to Al Jazeera

The Palestinian group Hamas said it considers Israel’s airdrop operations
and limited humanitarian corridors in Gaza a “symbolic, deceptive move
aimed at whitewashing its image before the world”.

In a statement on Sunday, Hamas said Israel is “deflecting international
demands to lift the siege and end the starvation campaign against
Palestinians”, calling it part of “a calculated policy to manage famine,
impose coercive realities, and subject civilians to danger and humiliation”.

“The arrival of food and medicine to Gaza is not a favour, it is a natural
right and an urgent necessity to stop the catastrophe imposed by the
Nazi-like occupation,” Hamas said.

Hamas also held Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “directly
responsible” for policies that have led to mass civilian deaths
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/7/27/live-israel-intercepts-gaza-bound-handala-5-palestinians-starve-to-death>,
calling his handling of aid and the starvation deaths of Palestinians
“clear-cut war crimes”.

Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud, reporting from Gaza City, said airdrops carried
out in the past in Gaza “were not effective, they did not reach enough
people, let alone the chaos and violence they have caused”.

“The airdrops confirm what we have reported in the past – that Gaza has
turned into a testing lab and the Israeli military is experimenting with
every attack, every policy,” he saiid.

Aid agencies said they are deeply sceptical that airdrops could deliver
enough food safely to tackle a deepening hunger crisis
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/26/israeli-attacks-forced-starvation-kill-more-than-70-palestinians-in-gaza>
facing Gaza’s more than two million inhabitants while also calling it a
“grotesque distraction”.

A number of Western and Arab governments carried out airdrops in Gaza in
2024 when aid deliveries by land also faced Israeli restrictions, but many
in the humanitarian community consider them ineffective.

“Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation,” Philippe Lazzarini,
head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, said on Saturday.
“They are expensive, inefficient and can even kill starving civilians.”

But British Prime Minister Keir Starmer backed the idea last week,
promising to work with Jordan to restart airdrops. The United Arab Emirates
also said it would resume airdrops “immediately”.

The humanitarian situation in Gaza has gravely deteriorated
<https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/26/israel-says-its-distributing-aid-in-gaza-so-why-are-people-starving>
in recent days, and more than 100 NGOs warned that “mass starvation” was
spreading in Gaza.

Israel’s military claims it does not limit the number of aid trucks going
into Gaza and alleges that UN agencies and relief groups are not collecting
aid once it is inside the territory.

But humanitarian organisations accuse the army of imposing excessive
restrictions while tightly controlling road access within Gaza.
Source: News Agencies
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