US Military Completes First Round of Food Airdrops Into Southern Gaza

Published on March 2, 2024

The U.S. military on Saturday began dropping meal bundles over the Gaza Strip, the besieged enclave where supply trucks have been overwhelmed and looted. Three C-130 cargo planes dropped a total of 66 pallets containing about 38,000 meals ready-to-eat over Gaza, in the first of many upcoming rounds of emergency humanitarian aid authorized by President Joe Biden, a senior administration official said in a press call on Saturday morning. The pallets were dropped in the southwestern part of the Strip, along its coast of the Mediterranean Sea, according to the official. The locations were specifically chosen to make sure as many people as possible have access to the aid packages....

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