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France to airdrop aid into Gaza, says diplomatic source
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Humanitarian aid is airdropped to Palestinians over Gaza City, in the northern Gaza Strip, July 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Jehad Alshrafi)
France will airdrop aid into Gaza “in coming days,” a diplomatic source says, as UN-backed experts warned of a famine unfolding in the Strip.
“France will carry out airdrops in the coming days to meet the most essential and urgent needs of the civilian population in Gaza,” the source says, also urging “an immediate opening by Israel of the land crossing points.”
The comment comes on the third day of Israel’s new aid policy, which includes “humanitarian pauses” in the fighting, resumption of Arab countries’ airdrops and, for the first time, airdrops by Israel itself.
Spain and the UK have also announced plans to airdrop aid into Gaza.
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