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Airdrops Fail

CrossFireArabia
July 30, 2025

Israel allowed only 109 aid trucks into the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, but most of them were looted amid escalating security chaos, the Gaza Government Media Office reported.

Four of six airdrops also fell into hazardous zones, it said.

“Today, 109 aid trucks entered Gaza, with the majority looted and robbed due to the security chaos systematically and deliberately imposed by the Israeli occupation,” the office said in a statement as published in Anadolu.

It added that Israel aims to “sabotage aid distribution and deprive civilians of assistance as part of engineering chaos and starvation.”

The office pointed out that the airdrop operations failed to reach those in need, noting that “four of six airdrops landed in areas under Israeli military control or neighborhoods where civilians had been ordered to evacuate.”

It added that anyone in these areas “faces direct targeting and killing,” making the airdrops “not only futile but also dangerous to the starving population.”

The media office emphasized that Gaza requires at least 600 aid trucks and fuel daily to meet civilians’ basic needs.

Israel has imposed a blockade on Gaza for 18 years and since March 2 has shut down all crossings, blocking the entry of aid convoys and ignoring international calls to reopen them.

At least 147 people have died of starvation since October 2023, including 88 children, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.

This comes as Israel on Sunday announced plans for localized temporary pauses in fighting to allow aid delivery through designated safe corridors amid mounting accusations that such measures are an attempt to whitewash its role in the deepening humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza.

The Israeli army, rejecting international calls for a ceasefire, has pursued a brutal offensive on Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023, killing more than 60,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children. The relentless bombardment has destroyed the enclave and led to food shortages.

Last November, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.

Israel also faces a genocide case at the International Court of Justice for its war on the enclave.

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Gaza = Famine Caused by Israel

CrossFireArabia
July 29, 2025

This is a statement made by Jolien Veldwijk, CARE Palestine Country Director

The testimonies of our colleagues and partners, combined with the analysis of technical experts are clear – famine is happening in Gaza. Palestinians are suffering a manmade famine, caused by Israel’s siege and the deliberate obstruction of aid, and fueled by the inaction of world leaders. The haunting images of emaciated children are evidence of a failure of humanity to act. Using starvation as a weapon is a war crime under international humanitarian law.

More than 100 deaths from malnutrition have been recorded already. Sadly, we know this will accelerate in the coming days. It is already too late to save the lives of many of the most vulnerable, including the elderly, disabled and infants. Over 40% of pregnant and breastfeeding women are severely malnourished, while nearly one in five children under the age of five in Gaza City is acutely malnourished. Bringing people back from the brink of starvation requires specialized medical treatment, not just food and water. For many, especially children, the damage will be permanent.

After more than 20 months of political inaction, world leaders must finally take decisive action. We urge the international community to finally secure an immediate and lasting ceasefire, the release of hostages and arbitrarily detained people, and full, safe, unhindered, immediate and sustained access to principled humanitarian aid to all people in need in Gaza. Israeli authorities must end the siege on Gaza, immediately open all border crossings to let aid in and allow humanitarians to do our jobs safely.

For media inquiries, please email [email protected], or contact Sulafah Al-Shami, CARE’s Regional Communications Advisor, MENA, [email protected]

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Erdogan: Starvation in Gaza ‘Worse Than Nazi Camps’

CrossFireArabia
July 29, 2025

After months of relentless Israeli attacks, scenes in famine-wracked Gaza are now “worse than Nazi camps,” with people being starved and deprived of water before the eyes of the world, said the Turkish president on Tuesday.

“The terrorist state of Israel has been committing genocide against our brothers in Gaza, brutally massacring them for 22 months in an area of 360 square kilometers (139 square miles),” Erdogan told a news conference alongside his Kazakh counterpart Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, in Ankara.

“Israel’s use of hunger as a weapon against Palestinians is the clearest indication that they have no humanity,” he added.

Calling the humanitarian situation in Gaza catastrophic, Erdogan urged all countries “with a conscience, especially Islamic nations, and all peoples” to raise their voices loudly to counter Israel’s attacks, which cause innocent children to be killed either from hunger or from bullets fired by occupation forces.

“We will continue to do whatever is necessary in this regard. God willing, we will also see the days when those committing genocide against the people of Gaza are held accountable before the law and history,” Erdogan added.

Relations with Kazakhstan

On ties between Türkiye and Kazakhstan, Erdogan said he and Tokayev discussed projects that will take Turkish-Kazakh military and defense industry cooperation to the next level.

Noting that the level of relations between Türkiye and Kazakhstan was elevated to an Enhanced Strategic Partnership, Erdogan said Kazakhstan is the largest economy in the region and also Ankara’s biggest trade partner there.

“We are continuing our path to reach a trade volume of $15 billion,” he added according to Anadolu.

Emphasizing that Turkish investments in Kazakhstan have reached the level of $5 billion, while Kazakh investments in Türkiye are approaching $1.5 billion, Erdogan said that they discussed a wide range of topics, from defense to energy, from transportation to science and technology.

“As a result, we signed 20 documents, which you just witnessed. We explored opportunities for cooperation in sectors such as mining and rare earth elements. We discussed ways to transport larger volumes of Kazakh oil to global markets via our country. We also consulted on what can be done to utilize and further develop the Middle Corridor, which is the modern-day counterpart of the Silk Road and passes through the Caspian Sea,” Erdogan added.

Stating that cooperation on security and the fight against terrorist groups, especially the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) – responsible for a deadly failed coup in 2016 – were also discussed, Erdogan said cooperation in education was also part of their talks.

“Now, I would like to share the good news that, with the support of President Tokayev, the Turkish Maarif (Education) Foundation has begun efforts to open one school each in (the capital) Astana and Almaty,” he said.

“We are working together to strengthen the Turkic world, both through our bilateral relations and within the framework of our family council, the Organization of Turkic States,” he added.

Touching on the Turkish Cypriots, “who are an essential and inseparable part of the Turkic world,” Erdogan said that in the joint statement they adopted, they specifically discussed the importance of respecting the equal and inherent rights of the Turkish Cypriots.

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Houthis Target Ben Gurion Airport

CrossFireArabia
July 29, 2025

Yemen’s Houthi group said Tuesday that it launched a hypersonic ballistic missile at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv.

In a prerecorded statement, Houthi military spokesperson Yahya Saree announced the group had “successfully struck Lod Airport (Ben Gurion) in the occupied Jaffa area” with a “Palestine 2” hypersonic ballistic missile, adding that the attack caused mass panic and flight disruptions.

The Israeli military, however, stated that it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen earlier Tuesday evening after air raid sirens were activated across the Tel Aviv metropolitan area and Jerusalem, forcing millions into shelters according to Anadolu.

No casualties or damage were reported.

The Houthis have intensified missile and drone strikes on Israel since Israeli forces resumed attacks on the Gaza Strip in March after two months of a shaky ceasefire.

Since November 2023, the group has also targeted commercial shipping in the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden, and the Arabian Sea in support of Palestinians in Gaza, where more than 60,000 victims have been killed in an Israeli onslaught.

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France to Airdrop Mass Aid Into Gaza

CrossFireArabia
July 29, 2025

France announced Tuesday that it will airdrop a total of 40 tons of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip starting Friday.

“We will organize, starting Friday and in close coordination with Jordanian authorities, four flights carrying 10 tons of food each into the Gaza Strip,” Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot told French broadcaster BFM TV, as he is co-chairing a high-level conference on a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict at UN headquarters in New York according to Anadolu.

Stressing that the air route is “useful” but “not sufficient,” he noted that 52 metric tons of French humanitarian cargo are currently blocked just a few kilometers from the Gaza Strip.

“It is therefore essential that Israeli authorities finally agree to reopen land access to Gaza in a sufficiently meaningful way to ease the horrific suffering of the civilian population there,” Barrot said.

He further reaffirmed that they had achieved and “even exceeded” the goals that they had set by creating momentum with Britain’s announcement that it is considering recognizing the state of Palestine.

“Other countries are following suit,” Barrot said. “In short, we have revived a political horizon: the two-state solution, which was on the verge of collapse.”