TEL AVIV, Israel - The U.S. military on Saturday said it began dropping food over the Gaza Strip, a war-torn enclave desperate for humanitarian aid.
A “a combined humanitarian assistance airdrop into Gaza” of over 38,000 meals along the coastline using C-130 aircraft was conducted by U.S. and Jordanian air forces, U.S. Central Command said in a statement.
38,000 meals for 2 million people?
At least it’s something?
It’s a token action. Benefit of the doubt right now, since it’s early, and you need to ramp up things like this. But then, Israel was letting trucks with aid in. All 10 of them a day. Only under pressure from other countries they stepped it up, but it was never a full-blown open border for aid.
Until we see actual, meaningful drops, including medicine to hospitals, including food, including everything that’s needed, I’ll be sceptical.
West Berlin was supplied in 1948 with crazy amounts of resources, with according to wiki, dropping 7000 tons of stuff daily (record was 12000 in a day) in total flying 250000 times. And that’s literally right after World War 2. West Berlin also had around 2 million people.
Edit: for context, if they dropped only rice which is very nutritious, they dropped like 25 tons.
Oh don’t get me wrong, it absolutely needs to be better. It’s bullshit that we can’t figure out how to not have war in the world when there’s so many resources.
I dream of world peace but fear it may never truly come.