Jordan and UAE aid drops underway in Gaza during Israel’s ‘tactical pause’

Jordan and the United Arab Emirates have shot down aid to Gaza after Israel began a “tactical stop” in the fighting in order to alleviate a deteriorating humanitarian crisis.

The Jordan Army said that its aircraft, which works with the United Arab Emirates, provided 25 tons of aid in three drops on Sunday. It also entered a truck convoy from Egypt and another from Jordan.

Israel said on Sunday that it would stop military operations for 10 hours a day in parts of Gaza and allow aid corridors, “refute the wrong claim of deliberate hunger.”

However, the paramedics reported nine dead and 54 of Israeli fire near the relief convoy in central Gaza. An air strike also hit a residential bloc an hour after the stopping of the stopping on Saturday.

Local sources told BBC that nine people were shot in the Netzarim corridor along Salah al -Din Street in central Gaza, where many civilians gathered in anticipation of the United Nations aid leaders. A medical official at the facility said that the victims were transferred to Al -Oda Hospital in Noussea.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that its forces “shot warning footage” in the “suspect gathering” approaching them. He said he was not aware of any losses.

Meanwhile, the BBC has been investigating a geographical raid to Meedh Al-Wahidi Street in the central area of Gaza City in West Gaza-which was set by Israel an hour before the area where the operations stopped.

The verification was based on the reports of witnesses and geographical videos that were published earlier on Sunday. The Israeli Defense Army said it examined the coordinates and was not aware of the strike.

Food aid trucks that reach the tape were ignored on Sunday, as desperate Palestinians tried to seize bags of flour from an auxiliary truck near the food distribution point in Zikim, north of Gaza.

Israel has been subjected to extensive international pressure over the past weeks to allow help in the region that it controls, amid reports on mass hunger.

The United Nations World Food Program says that a third of Gaza population does not eat them for several days at a time, and a quarter of “famine -like conditions”.

More than 100 people have been reported by Hamas’s Ministry of Health to died due to malnutrition in recent days. Meanwhile, hundreds were killed by fire while trying to get food from the limited number of distribution points run by the Israeli Humanitarian Foundation, supported by the United States (GHF).

The UK Foreign Minister, David Lami, said that Israel’s concessions during the weekend alone will not reduce the suffering in Gaza.

“While the air drops will help reduce the worst suffering, land roads are the only ways that can be viable and sustainable to provide aid in Gaza,” he said in a statement.

“These measures must be fully implemented and the barriers increase on aid. The world is watching.”

Meanwhile, Volcker Turk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, called for more international pressure to end the war. He said that every day he brought “more destruction, more killings, and more ignorance of the Palestinians.”

Donald Trump, the US president, said he would send more assistance to Gaza, but he urged this “an international problem – it is not a problem in the United States.”

Gaza residents welcomed reports of a temporary humanitarian stand to allow food and medicine to enter the besieged pocket.

“Of course, I feel some hope again, but I am also concerned that hunger will continue as soon as the stop end,” Rasha Sheikh Khalil, a four -year -old mother in Gaza City, told BBC.

Nevin Sala, a six -year -old mother, said that her family did not eat “fresh fruit or one vegetable in four months.”

“There is no chicken, no meat, no eggs. All we have is canned foods that are often finished and accurate.”

Ayed Kodaya, a local journalist in Gaza and from Al -Malasi, in the south of the tape, said that most of the air dropping packages “fell in places designed from those who are dead, where if you go there, you will put yourself in a very great danger.”

“That place is evacuated and under Israeli control – so it is fraught with risks.”

Although the air drops and its cavalry are heading to Gaza, the Israeli Prime Minister promised his country “he will continue to fight, and we will continue to act until we achieve all the goals of the war – until complete victory.”

During his visit to the Ramon Air Force Base in the Nijif Desert, Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel has always allowed help in Gaza, and that the United Nations blamed his government in an unfair way in the crisis.

“There are safe ways. There was always, but today is official. There will be no more excuses,” he said.

Under the new measures, Israel said it would suspend the fighting in three populated gas areas for 10 hours a day and open safe roads to deliver aid.

The Israel Defense Army said it would open humanitarian corridors for aid in Gaza to allow the United Nations and other organizations to deliver food and medicine to the Palestinians through the tape.

The roads will be in place from 06:00 to 23:00 local time (04:00 GMT to 21:00 GMT).

Temporary suspension in military activity will take place in three fields – Al -Mawassi, Deira Al -Bala, and Gaza City – from 10:00 to 20:00 local time (08:00 GMT to 18:00 GMT) every day until further notice, added the Israel Defense Army.

Israel’s concessions were followed clear to the Jordanian and United Arab Emirates plan, with the support of the United Kingdom, on the air in Gaza.

Israel launched a war in Gaza in response to the Hamas -led attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, where about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others took hostage.

More than 59,000 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.