120 tons of aid dropped into Gaza as Canada joins international mission

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Aid pallets are dropped from a military plane over Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip during an airdrop mission on August 4, 2025. (AFP)
Aid pallets are dropped from a military plane over Nuseirat in the central Gaza Strip during an airdrop mission on August 4, 2025. (AFP)

Aircraft from Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Germany, Belgium, and — for the first time — Canada, airdropped 120 pallets of humanitarian aid in the northern and southern Gaza Strip today, the IDF says.

Each pallet contains around one ton of food.

The IDF says the airdrops were carried out “in accordance with the directives from the political leadership and as part of the cooperation between Israel” and the involved countries.

The airdrops are part of a “series of actions aimed at improving the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip,” the military says.

“The IDF will continue to work in order to improve the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip, along with the international community, while refuting the false claims of deliberate starvation in Gaza,” it adds.

Since July 26, a total of 675 humanitarian aid packages have been airdropped in the Gaza Strip by nine countries, including Israel. The packages the IDF airdropped were supplied by international aid groups, not by Israel.

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