Last resort: Donors mull over airdrops for aid to desperate Gaza [Video]

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories – With the humanitarian situation in Gaza increasingly desperate, donors are considering delivering relief supplies from the sky, as the United Nations warns famine is “almost inevitable”.

The amount of aid brought into the territory by truck has plummeted during nearly five months of war, and Gazans are facing dire shortages of food, water and medicine.

A frenzied scramble for food from a truck convoy delivering aid to northern Gaza left more than 100 people dead on Feb 29, according to the Hamas-run territory’s Health Ministry, after Israeli forces opened fire on the crowd.

With most aid convoys halted, some foreign militaries have airdropped supplies to Gaza instead, sending long lines of aid pallets floating down into the war-torn territory on parachutes.

Jordan has been conducting many of the operations since war broke out on Oct 7, with the support of countries including Britain, France and the Netherlands.

Egypt sent several military …