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The US military today carried out its first airlift operation in the Gaza Strip, as the deaths of Palestinians waiting in line for food highlighted the growing humanitarian disaster in the coastal enclave with people displaced by months of Israeli military operations.
Other countries, including Jordan and France, have already launched airlift operations into Gaza, where the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs says a quarter of the population could soon be starving.
Through a C-130 military transport aircraft, the United States dropped more than 38,000 food rations along Gaza's Mediterranean coastline, the US military said in a statement. Jordanian forces also participated in this operation.
Meanwhile, at least 10 Palestinians were killed as a result of an Israeli air strike on Saturday in Rafah, the health ministry in the Gaza Strip announced.
The attack took place on Saturday in an area of displaced Palestinians, near the Emirates Hospital in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood south of Rafah city.
The Health Ministry in the Gaza Strip, which is run by Hamas, which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States, said a health worker working at the hospital was among those killed. Israel's military has yet to comment on the incident.
Meanwhile, talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip are expected to resume on Sunday, according to two Egyptian government sources, although Israeli media reported that Israel would not send a delegation to the talks unless Hamas provides a full list of Israeli hostages still at large. are alive
US President Joe Biden has said he hopes to reach a ceasefire agreement before the month of Ramadan, which begins on March 10.
Pressure to reach a cease-fire has increased with reports of more than 30,000 Palestinians killed in Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip and UN warnings that a quarter of Palestinians face the risk of starvation if they are not halted. fighting soon.
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas and launched a major military offensive in the Gaza Strip after the militants attacked Israel on October 7, killing 1,200 people and taking 250 hostages. /VOA
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