US aircraft carry out airdrops of aid to Gaza with 38,000 meals
by Julian Borger in Washington and agencies from World news | The Guardian on (#6K1QD)
Three C-130 aircraft dropped a total of 66 bundles of aid to the Palestinian territory besieged by Israel
The US air force began airdrops of aid over Gaza on Saturday afternoon, in a joint operation with Jordanian planes in a last-resort attempt to get food into the besieged coastal strip as mass starvation looms.
US officials said that US and Jordanian C-130 planes taking off from Jordan dropped 66 pallets of food, containing a total of 38,000 meals at mid-afternoon local time, in the first of a series of airdrops that Joe Biden announced on Friday.
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