Achi news desk-
The United Arab Emirates Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday it had carried out the largest humanitarian air campaign in the northern Gaza Strip, totaling 90 tons.
The ministry said on X that it was carried out as part of Operation Birds of Goodness and was the 16th airlift of humanitarian aid and relief in the northern Gaza Strip by joint crews from the United Arab Emirates Air Force and the Egyptian Air Force.
“This is the biggest airdrop, which is carried out through 3 planes carrying 90 tonnes of food and relief aid,” he added.
He said “the drop operation took place over buffer zones in the northern Gaza Strip which are difficult to access.”
This brings the total amount of aid released since the launch of the operation to 664 tonnes of food aid and relief, according to the statement.
“Birds of Goodness” comes within the framework of “Operation Chivalrous Knight,” which began on November. 5, 2023, based on the directives of the President of the United Arab Emirates Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
On February 29, Operation Birds of Goodness was launched to continue for several weeks, “with the aim of relieving the suffering of Palestinian brothers due to the war,” according to a previous statement from the Ministry of Defense of the United Arab Emirates.
Israel has waged a deadly military offensive on the Palestinian territories since an October 7 cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas that killed around 1,200 people.
Since then more than 32,000 Palestinians have been killed and around 75,000 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of essentials.
Israel’s war has pushed 85% of Gaza’s population into internal displacement amid dire shortages of food, clean water and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the United Nations.
Israel is accused of genocide in the International Court of Justice, which issued an interim ruling in January that ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take steps to guarantee that humanitarian aid is provided to civilians in Gaza.
