The Federal Inner Cabinet has decided to supply humanitarian aid to Gaza. The aid will be dropped onto the war-ravaged territory from a Belgian military plane. The announcement that Belgium is to airdrop humanitarian aid into Gaza was made by the Belgian Defence Minister Ludivine Dedonder (Francophone socialist). Both the Netherlands and France had already decided to drop aid from the air over Gaza. Belgium is expected to send 100,000 euro’s worth of humanitarian aid to help the people of Gaza. A military aircraft will leave Belgium on Monday for Jordan, from where the supplies should be dropped from the air over Gaza. It is not yet known when the airdrops will commence.
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Belgium to supply humanitarian aid to Gaza by airdrop
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The Federal Prime Minister Alexander De Croo (Flemish liberal) announced on Thursday that the Federal Government was examining whether to take aid to Gaza in this way. The Belgian Foreign Minister Hadja Lahbib (Francophone liberal) said that the Jordanian Government had asked Belgium if it could do so. A Belgian reconnaissance team is currently in Jordan.
The first consignment of aid will leave for Gaza on board an A400M transport aircraft on Monday. Ms Dedonder's proposal to organise an airdrop of aid came on Thursday after the deaths of around a hundred people during the distribution of aid in Gaza.
The Jordanian army recently carried out a series of airdrops of humanitarian aid, food and other supplies to the population of the Gaza Strip. On Thursday, the United Kingdom said that it was also planning to do the same.
The Israeli army, also announced on Wednesday that it would be dropping aid for residents of the south of the Palestinian territory, in collaboration with the United States, France and some Arab countries. The United Nations has also not ruled out the possibility of organizing airdrops of humanitarian aid.