2:29
- ABC News
- March 10, 2024
US, Jordan airdrop more aid into Gaza: Officials
The airdrops included flour, pasta and canned goods, U.S. officials said.
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The aid drops come amid continued calls from international humanitarian organizations for a cease-fire -- as the Holy month of Ramadan approaches -- and a release of the Israeli hostages being held in Gaza. There are about 134 hostages still believed to be in captivity in Gaza, 130 of them related to the current war and four related to the 2014 conflict. Of the 134, at least 32 are believed to be dead, according to the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli Prime Minister's Office.
\"There is nowhere safe for people to go. The civilian death toll and the ongoing captivity of hostages are shocking and unacceptable,\" the International Committee of the Red Cross and the Red Crescent said in a statement Saturday.
Biden said on Friday the chances of securing a cease-fire deal between Israel and Hamas before Ramadan begins on Sunday night are \"tough.\"
Meanwhile, hundreds of truckloads of humanitarian aid have been stuck waiting to be distributed in Gaza as the humanitarian crisis worsens, according to international organizations.
Between 200 and 300 truckloads from Israel into southern Gaza were at the Kerem Shalom crossing point Tuesday, waiting to be picked up and distributed, according to Israeli officials from the Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT).
The distribution of aid in Gaza and getting it to those most in need in the north is one of the most pressing issues, COGAT said. Fifteen trucks carrying food and flour entered the north Gaza Strip on Wednesday, according to a COGAT post on X.
The humanitarian air drops followed allegations by the Hamas-run Gaza Ministry of Health that five children were killed in the Gaza Strip by a humanitarian aid airdrop from an unidentified foreign country on Friday. Several Palestinian civilians were also reportedly injured in the airdrop, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza, which called the airdrop \"random.\"
CENTCOM said in a statement Friday night it was aware of reports of civilians killed as the result of humanitarian airdrops but said it was not the result of a U.S. airdrop. During a news briefing Friday evening, Pentagon press secretary Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder said, \"Press reports that U.S. air drops resulted in civilian casualties on the ground are false, as we've confirmed that all of our aid bundles landed safely on the ground.\"
ABC News' Shannon Crawford contributed to this report.
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