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According to medical sources, at least 11 Palestinians have been injured in northern Gaza as a result of an airdrop from an aid truck that landed directly on tents where displaced people are living.

As part of its ongoing efforts to allow and facilitate the entry of aid into the Gaza Strip, the Israeli military announced on Saturday that it had carried out an airdrop of humanitarian aid.

However, some of the aid pallets were reported to have struck tents close to al-Rasheed Road, a major thoroughfare that runs north to south of the Gaza border.

Many more pallets were dropped in areas close to the Israeli military’s compound and far from the displacement sites in northern Gaza.

The Israeli military resumed its daily “tactical pause” of operations in some of Gaza on Sunday and established new aid corridors after months of international pressure.

Hamas, a Palestinian organization, described Israel’s airdrop operations and limited humanitarian corridors as “symbolic, deceptive moves intended to whitewash its image in front of the world.”

Hamas claimed in a statement on Sunday that Israel is “deflecting international demands to lift the siege and end the hunger campaign against Palestinians” and that it is a part of “a calculated policy to manage famine, impose coercive realities, and subject civilians to danger and humiliation.”

Gaza receiving food and medicine is not a favor; it is a natural right and a pressing need, according to Hamas, citing the need to put an end to the Nazi-like occupation’s catastrophe.

Hamas called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of aid and the starvation deaths of Palestinians “clear-cut war crimes” and said he was directly responsible for the policies that have caused numerous civilian deaths.

Hani Mahmoud, a journalist from Gaza City, reported on how airdrops used in the past in Gaza “weren’t effective, they didn’t reach enough people, let alone the chaos and violence they have caused.”

The Israeli military is testing every attack and policy, he said, adding that the airdrops confirm what we have previously reported.

Aid organizations expressed skepticism about the safety of airdrops in carrying enough food to address the region’s more than two million residents’ growing hunger crisis, while also referring to it as a “grotesque distraction.”

Many in the humanitarian community believe that airdrops in Gaza were ineffective when several Western and Arab governments carried out them in 2024 when land-based aid deliveries were also restricted.

Airdrops won’t stop the deepening starvation, according to Philippe Lazzarini, the UNRWA director, on Saturday. They can even kill starving civilians because they are expensive, ineffective, and ineffective.

However, British Prime Minister Keir Starmer last week endorsed the idea and said he would work with Jordan to restart airdrops. Additionally, the UAE stated that it would resume airdrops “immediately.”

More than 100 NGOs warned that “mass starvation” was becoming a reality in Gaza in recent days as the humanitarian situation has seriously deteriorated there.

Israel’s military alleges that UN agencies and relief organizations don’t collect aid once it enters the territory because it doesn’t restrict the number of aid trucks entering Gaza.

In order to address the Palestinian enclave’s worsening humanitarian situation, the Israeli military has set a “tactical pause” in fighting in three of Gaza’s three regions.

The military announced in a statement that it will start “tactical suspension of military operations for humanitarian purposes” from 10am (07:00 GMT) to 8pm local time every day starting on Sunday in al-Mawasi, Deir el-Balah, and Gaza City.

Although the Israeli military claims that it doesn’t operate in these areas, fighting and strikes have recently broken out in all of them.

The Israeli government denies that the besieged enclave is starving, but the military added that it would designate safe routes to aid aid organizations in delivering food and other supplies to Gazan residents.

The military added that in order to combat the rising hunger in Gaza, it conducted aid airdrops on Sunday, including packages of aid that included flour, sugar, and canned goods.

After months of warnings from international aid organizations, rights experts, and various governments about famine as Israel continued to halt essential aid to Gaza, Israel made the decision to stop aerial bombardment and ground attacks.

As hundreds of Palestinians have been killed recently while attempting to reach food distribution centers run by a notorious group supported by Israel and the United States, the world has grown in criticism, even from Israel’s close allies.

The Freedom Flotilla Coalition reported on Sunday that the Israeli military also intercepted a Gaza-bound aid ship attempting to break the Israeli blockade of Palestinian territory, detained 21 international activists, journalists, and seize all cargo, including food and medicine, from the Israeli military.

The Israeli military “violently intercepted” the vessel in international waters, cutting the cameras and communications, just before midnight on Saturday, according to the coalition that runs the ship.

Israeli denying that they are starving

Aid organizations reported last week that 2.2 million Gazans were experiencing widespread hunger after Israel stopped all supplies in the area in March, and that the situation resumed with new restrictions in May.

According to the Gaza Ministry of Health, in recent weeks, scores of Palestinians have passed away from malnutrition. Since the start of the war, 85 children have died as a result of malnutrition, according to the ministry.

On Saturday alone, at least five Palestinians died from starvation.

Israel has consistently denied starving the Palestinian people in Gaza, according to Al Jazeera’s Hamdah Salhut, who reported from Jordan because the network has been banned in Israel and the occupied West Bank.

She continued, “The Israeli military insists that there is no starvation in Gaza and that they are trying to refute these claims in their statement, despite the fact that they are now enacting a new series of measures to improve the humanitarian situation in Gaza.”

Israel has largely accused the UN of not distributing the aid trucks, but Israel has claimed that it has not permitted them to do so.

Salhut claimed that the Israeli government’s security cabinet called for the military to stop attacking after the Israeli political elite had issued a command to do so.

On Sunday, July 27, 2018, this is how things are going.

Fighting

• The administration of the region’s south in Russia reported on Sunday that falling debris from destroyed Ukrainian drones had an impact on train and rail power supplies in some areas of the Volgograd region. According to the administration, Governor Andrei Bocharov was quoted as saying on Telegram that there were no injuries as a result of the attacks.
• The Russian Ministry of Defense&nbsp reported that Russia had bombed 99 drones over 12 Russian regions, including the Crimean Peninsula and the Black Sea overnight.
• According to Ukrainian officials, Russia also launched a barrage of drones and missiles over the weekend that left three people dead in Dnipro and the surrounding area. The air force of Ukraine reported intercepting 183 drones and 17 missiles, but hits from 10 missiles and 25 drones were recorded in nine locations.
• According to the region’s governor, Oleg Melnichenko, drones have once more targeted Moscow, according to the city’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, and an industrial complex in the Penza oblast southeast of the capital. According to regional governor Alexander Khinshtein, two people were killed by Ukrainian drones in the Rostov region and another two were killed in the country’s Kursk region along its border.
• The Zelenyi Hai in the Donetsk region and Maliivka inside the Dnipropetrovsk region were declared by Russia’s defense ministry on Saturday, along with two additional villages in eastern Ukraine.
• A SBU security service official told the Reuters news agency that Ukrainian drones attacked a radio and electronic warfare equipment plant in Russia’s Stavropol region on Saturday night during a routine attack. Each production-related attack “slows down” production and weakens the military might of the enemy. The official told the agency, “This work will continue.” On Sunday, attacks on the plant continued.

Weapons and military assistance

• The Indian company Ideal Detonators Private Limited, which shipped $1.4 million worth of the explosive compound octogen to Russia in December, announced on Saturday that it complies with Indian regulations and that the cargo was intended for civilian industrial purposes. Financial institutions should not encourage any sales of the substance to Moscow, according to the US government, which has declared the compound to be “critical for Russia’s war effort.”

Diplomacy

• As the two former allies of the communist bloc try to strengthen ties following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Russia announced that it would launch direct passenger flights from Moscow to Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, on Sunday. Russian aviation blogs report that regular flights between the capitals have been running since the mid-1990s after the 10-day Moscow-Pyongyang passenger rail service was resumed in June.
• Pope Leo and Metropolitan Anthony, a senior cleric in the Russian Orthodox Church, discussed the conflict in Ukraine on Saturday in an effort to sever ties between the two strained by Russia’s invasion.

Ceasefire