NBC News: The Belgian airforce began dropping aid into Gaza amid the ongoing humanitarian disaster



by GrimbeertDeDas

26 comments

  2. While the effort and sentiment behind it is great, it’s important to realize all of this is about the size of one truckload, but INCREDIBLY more expensive. There are hundreds of trucks sitting at the border of Gaza that aren’t let in by the IDF every single day. So yay Belgium for doing SOMETHING, but we need to realize this is a drop in a very very empty bucket.

  4. I heard Hamas is also holding and hiding food. Is this true or not ?
    If it’s true i hope those packages don’t end up in their hands.

  6. If anything, we should send troops to inspect the hundreds of trucks those fuckers won’t let through. Barely any cost.

  9. Anyone who xan tell me what’s the payload one plane can carry? 16pallets seems low for such a big plane

  12. I already posted this a few weeks ago when there were plans to airdrop, but I’ll do it again: we are doing more to [enrich the Jordanian Monarchy](https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/jordan-profited-gaza-aid-airdrop-sources) (officially to the Jordanian Armed Forces) with airdrops than helping the starving population of Gaza:

    >Jordanian authorities have profited significantly from overseeing the delivery of international aid into Gaza during Israel’s ongoing war on the besieged Palestinian enclave, Middle East Eye has learned.

    >Sources say the Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization (JHCO), an official body overseeing humanitarian aid into Gaza, has coordinated with Israeli authorities to act as the sole conduit for aid passing through Jordan.

    >MEE spoke with sources from international aid organisations and people with direct knowledge of the JHCO’s operations.

    >One source said much of the aid attributed to the JHCO in fact originates from foreign governments and NGOs, both Jordanian and international, while direct contributions from the Jordanian state are negligible.

    >Jordanian authorities have demanded $2,200 for every aid truck entering Gaza, according to two NGO sources and two others familiar with the scheme.

    >The fee, aid organisations were told by the JHCO, is paid directly to the Jordanian Armed Forces.

    >***In addition, Jordan has charged between $200,000 and $400,000 per airdrop over Gaza, the sources said.***

    >***Around $200,000 was charged for each random drop, and $400,000 for targeted missions, despite each aircraft carrying the equivalent of less than half a truckload of aid.***

    >Sources said Jordan has expanded its logistical infrastructure in response to rising revenues from the aid operations.

    >According to MEE’s sources, the kingdom recently acquired 200 new aid trucks through a foreign grant and is building larger UN-supported storage depots in anticipation of increased deliveries under new international arrangements.

    These are no solutions. Solution for Belgium is to make Bouchez less of a genocidal maniac that blocks every government decision to protect his genocidal friends in the Netanyahu government instead of enriching the Jordanian Monarchy with useless and expensive air drops

  16. I am still surprised as of why not a single country says FU and just sends people there to protect the civilians and humanitarian workers.

    I am aware of what this might causes, but we all know Ireland is badass and would totally do that. Or NZ. There were international people helping the Ukrainians, too.

    Maybe it’s just me though.

  17. İk zie dezelfde video overal maar het wordt telkens geclaimd door een ander land 😂

    Fact check iemand?

  18. Now stop being a chicken bdw and recognize Palestine.

  19. Fucking Israel man. History will not be kind for our western support

  20. This is a great example of how fucking sad Belgian politicians are. Instead of ACTUALLY doing something, they send a drop of water into a huge fire, just to look good.

    Good for the few people this will help, but this is just politics at it’s worst.

  22. When the state does nothing about the starvation , they complain .
    When they drop aid and food … they complain..

  24. Dropping aid in the most expensive way possible, but not recognizing Palestine as a state.

  25. > humanitarian disaster

    As Rou Reynolds said yesterday: Don´t use the term “disaster”. That implies something outside our control. It’s not a disaster. It’s a crime with a very clear perpetrator.

  26. 16 paletten. Die operatie kost honderd keer zoveel als dat voedsel waard is. En het is een van de meest ontmenselijkende manieren van “helpen” die er zijn.

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