'Last resort': Donors hope to offer Gaza lifeline with air drops

Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories (AFP) March 1, 2024

With the humanitarian situation in Gaza increasingly desperate, the United States said Friday that it would join some of its Arab and European allies in delivering emergency relief from the sky. The amount of aid brought into the territory by truck has plummeted during nearly five months of war, and Gazans are facing dire shortages of food, water and medicines. A frenzied scramble for