The UK has air-dropped aid into Gaza for the first time since war broke out after striking a deal with Jordan. Four tonnes of supplies including medicines, food and fuel were delivered into the strip on a Jordanian Air Force plane on Wednesday.
Packages fitted with parachutes floated down to the Tal Al-Hawa Hospital in northern Gaza.
UK Foreign Secretary David Cameron said the aid would save lives and keep the hospital running.
The UK has until now only sent aid to Gaza by land and sea, but northern Gaza – a wasteland after nearly five months of war – is impossible to reach.
The World Food Programme has suspended deliveries there because its convoys had endured “complete chaos and violence”, the organisation said.
There is a heavy Israeli military presence in the area and much of the population were forced south.
However, an estimated 300,000 Palestinians remain in northern Gaza with little food or water and the UN has warned for months of a looming famine there.
Credit: bbc.com
