The US airdropped 46,000 meals into northern Gaza earlier today, US Central Command announces.
“The Defense Department humanitarian airdrops contribute to ongoing US and partner-nation government efforts to alleviate human suffering. These airdrops are part of a sustained effort, and we continue to plan follow-on aerial deliveries,” CENTCOM says.
Some 250,000 to 300,000 Palestinians are believed to be living in this part of the Strip despite an IDF directive for civilians to evacuate at the beginning of the war.
The area is largely cut off to prevent a Hamas resurgence in zones already cleared by the army.
With the center of the humanitarian operation located in the southern Gaza border city of Rafah, where most of the Strip’s two million civilians are sheltering, those in the north have had extremely limited access to aid for months.
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