{"id":311897,"date":"2025-08-02T12:24:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311897\/"},"modified":"2025-08-02T12:24:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T12:24:11","slug":"france-carries-out-first-aid-airdrop-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/311897\/","title":{"rendered":"France carries out first aid airdrop in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                        President Emmanuel Macron said France had carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian supplies into Gaza, after UN-backed experts warn the Israeli-blockaded Palestinian territory was slipping into famine.\n                    <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Faced with an urgent humanitarian crisis, we just conducted a food airdrop over Gaza,&#8221; Macron said in English on X.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But airdrops are not enough. Israel must grant full humanitarian access to address the risk of famine,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked France&#8217;s Jordanian, Emirati, and German partners for their support.<\/p>\n<p>Several tonnes of food supplies will be delivered to Gaza &#8220;over several days&#8221;, the French foreign and defence ministries said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;France is also working on land transport, by far the most effective solution for the large-scale and unhindered delivery of humanitarian goods desperately needed by the population,&#8221; the statement added.<\/p>\n<p>France will air-drop 40 tonnes of aid into Gaza from Friday, Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot said earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>Concern has escalated in the past week about hunger in the Gaza Strip after more than 21 months of war, which started after Palestinian militant group Hamas carried out a deadly attack against Israel in October 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Emmanuel Macron said France had carried out its first airdrop of humanitarian supplies into Gaza, after UN-backed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-311897","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114959159457338510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311897","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=311897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}