US announces airdrop of food on Gaza – DW – 03/02/2024

The President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, on Friday (03/01/2024) announced the upcoming air drop of packages with food and medicine in the Gaza Strip and opened the possibility of opening a sea corridor to facilitate the entry of humanitarian aid . In the area.

“The aid to Gaza is not enough. The lives of innocent people are at risk there. The lives of children are also at stake,” the President said as he opened a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at the White House.

“In the coming days, we will join with our friends in Jordan and others to provide air drops of food and supplies (…) We will try to open other routes to Ukraine (sic), including large That includes the possibility of a sea corridor for supplies of food,” the president said, adding that the country was confused when he tried to mention Gaza.

Biden said he would also insist that Israel open new land routes to facilitate the entry of more trucks and aid into the enclave. “There should be hundreds of trucks, not just a few. I will not stand by. We are doing everything possible to get more assistance,” he said.

Similarly, Biden said he hoped an agreement would be reached “soon” for the release of hostages held by the terrorist group Hamas and a six-week ceasefire in the Israeli offensive on Gaza that would allow the entry of aid across the strip. will allow. ,

Nearly five months of war, more than 30,200 people have been killed in the Strip, including 115 Gazans who died yesterday during a food distribution in Gaza City in a chaotic incident in which Israel acknowledged firing, but Number of victims attributed. The avalanche was caused by a hungry crowd running towards the trucks.

GS (EFE, AFP, Reuters, AP)