{"id":298254,"date":"2025-07-28T10:40:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298254\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T10:40:11","slug":"bbc-verify-live-tracking-aid-in-gaza-and-analysing-trumps-trade-deals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/298254\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Verify Live: Tracking aid in Gaza and analysing Trump\u2019s trade deals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Air drop of aid packages landed in &#8216;dangerous combat zone&#8217;published at 10:31 British Summer Time<\/p>\n<p>10:31 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-8kvzjk-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/46f65d6f-b73d-4ccf-a096-73e4f2d5ca21.png.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><strong>Benedict Garman<\/strong><br \/>BBC Verify senior journalist<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We\u2019re continuing to track air-dropped aid packages in Gaza &#8211; including whether they are landing in areas which are safely accessible.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Over the weekend, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AvichayAdraee\/status\/1949320714915291281\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">shared videos, external<\/a> of the resumption of air drops of aid packages into Gaza, which it said contained flour, sugar, and canned food.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But we\u2019ve geolocated video of seven packages falling to the ground, showing them landing nearly 1km (0.6 miles) inside a part of north Gaza the IDF has explicitly declared a \u201cdangerous combat zone\u201d according to its own map, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AvichayAdraee\/status\/1949335196081246425\/photo\/1\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">which it shared multiple times yesterday, external<\/a> and which it had warned Gazans not to enter.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A map of Gaza. The IDF designated &quot;dangerous combat zone&quot; is marked in red. The map pinpoints the location an aid drop which is inside the zone.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/6f768c70-4463-4c03-ba86-6253ec71a507.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"800\" height=\"800\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The map was released alongside an announcement about a humanitarian pause in military operations in specific areas. It features areas shaded red and white.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The white areas indicate where military activity is to be suspended during certain hours. However, the Israeli military has explicitly warned people not to return to the areas marked in red, saying it would put their lives at risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">We asked the IDF why it dropped aid into a \u201cdangerous combat zone\u201d zone. It said it had \u201cno comment on this matter\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Air drop of aid packages landed in &#8216;dangerous combat zone&#8217;published at 10:31 British Summer Time 10:31 BST Benedict&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":298255,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[12,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-298254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-world"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114930438979090865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/298255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}