The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is trying hard to create the impression that it actually cares about Palestinians getting enough food to eat. It boasted yesterday that 126 packages of humanitarian supplies [what a “package” really is, is not reported—ed.] were dropped in the Gaza Strip by aircraft from six countries, in what it called the largest airdrop operation since efforts to increase the supply of aid to Gaza began, the Times of Israel reported yesterday. Aircraft from Jordan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and—for the first time in over a year—Spain, Germany, and France airdropped food into both northern and southern Gaza.
The airdrops are part of a “series of actions aimed at improving the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip,” the IDF claimed. “The IDF will continue to work in order to improve the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, along with the international community, while refuting the false claims of deliberate starvation in Gaza,” it added.
But the IDF hasn’t stopped killing Palestinians. The Gaza health ministry reported yesterday that 83 more people were killed in the previous 24 hours and 554 wounded. Those numbers brought the Palestinian death toll since Oct. 7, 2023 to 60,332 and the number of wounded to 147,643. Those totals include 9,163 killed since March 18, 2025, the day Israel resumed the war on Gaza following a two-month ceasefire, and 35,602 wounded.
