U.S. military aircraft airdrop thousands of meals into Gaza in emergency humanitarian aid operation

A plane drops aid over Gaza, amid the ongoing the conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, on March 1, 2024.U.S. military C-130 cargo planes dropped food in pallets over Gaza on Saturday in the opening stage of an emergency humanitarian assistance authorized by President Joe Biden after more than 100 Palestinians who had surged to pull goods off an aid convoy were killed during a chaotic encounter with Israeli troops.

The body of a Palestinian killed in an early morning incident when residents rushed toward aid trucks in Gaza City on February 29, 2024.Hundreds of people had rushed about 30 trucks bringing a predawn delivery of aid to the north. Palestinians said nearby Israeli troops shot into the crowds. Israel said they fired warning shots toward the crowd and insisted many of the dead were trampled.

Palestinian children, with filled containers, sit on the ground after waiting in a line for food, distributed by charity organizations, since people are unable to obtain basic food supplies due to the embargo imposed by Israeli forces in Rafah, Gaza on February 25, 2024.The C-130 is widely used to deliver aid to remote places because of its ability to land in austere environments.

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