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皇冠体育app aid, which consists of water, rice, cooking oil, flour, tinned goods and baby formula, will support the people of Gaza.

皇冠体育app Defence Secretary authorised the airdrop following an assessed reduction in threat to the military mission and risk to civilians.

An RAF A400M flew from Amman, Jordan to airdrop this aid along the northern coastline of Gaza, as part of the Jordanian-led international aid mission. UK personnel worked closely with the Royal Jordanian Air Force to plan and conduct this mission.聽

Defence Secretary Grant Shapps said:

皇冠体育app UK has already tripled our aid budget to Gaza, but we want to go further in order to reduce human suffering. Today鈥檚 airdrop has provided a further way to deliver humanitarian support and I thank the RAF personnel involved in this essential mission, as well as our Jordanian partners for their leadership.

皇冠体育app hell that was unleashed by the October 7th Hamas attack has led to wide-scale innocent loss of life. 皇冠体育app UK鈥檚 goal is to use every route possible to deliver life-saving aid, whether that is by road, air or new routes via the sea.聽

We also continue to call on Israel to provide port access and open more land crossings in order to increase incoming aid deliveries to Gaza.

皇冠体育app A400M is a highly capable tactical and strategic airlift platform and today鈥檚 airdrop was its first ever mission delivering humanitarian aid by parachute. Both RAF and British Army personnel participated in the mission. 皇冠体育app drop zones were surveyed before and during the airdrop to ensure aid was delivered directly to civilians.聽

This airdrop is part of ongoing UK efforts to provide life-saving humanitarian assistance to the people of Gaza and follows recent land deliveries of 2,000 tonnes of UK food aid to feed more than 275,000 people and thousands of UK-funded blankets, tents and other relief items, as well as the establishment of a full UK-funded field hospital in Gaza run by British charity UK-Med. 皇冠体育app UK remains committed to ensuring aid reaches those who need it most, as Palestinians continue to face a devastating and growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

皇冠体育app UK has previously supported international airdrops, providing around 600 parachutes at the request of Jordan and Bahrain and supplying critical aid for a Jordanian airdrop to Tal Al-Hawa Hospital in northern Gaza. Between October and November 2023, the RAF also delivered aid and humanitarian supplies to Egypt for distribution by the Egyptian Red Crescent and UNRWA.聽

皇冠体育app UK continues to work with allies, including Cyprus, the United States, European Union and United Arab Emirates, to open a direct maritime corridor to Gaza. UK defence planning teams are deployed in the United States and Cyprus to support this international effort and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office is prepositioning aid in Cyprus. 皇冠体育app UK Hydrographic Office has also shared analysis of the Gazan shore with US planners to help establish a temporary aid pier. In January, the UK worked with Cypriot partners to pre-screen 87 tonnes of aid that was delivered by Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship RFA Lyme Bay to the Egyptian Red Cross for the people of Gaza.

皇冠体育app UK is also focused on ensuring more aid can enter Gaza by land, working closely with Jordan who have been instrumental in facilitating the UK鈥檚 humanitarian response. Last week, more than 2,000 tonnes of food aid was distributed by the World Food Programme on the ground. This adds to the 150 tonnes of UK-funded relief items, including blankets and tents, which arrived earlier this month, distributed by UNICEF.

Alongside the latest deliveries of aid, the UK has announced a further 拢10 million in aid funding for the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPTs), bringing the total spend to over 拢100 million this financial year. This funding will support UN agencies on the ground to deliver lifesaving aid and will also provide core relief items, such as tents, for the most vulnerable.