Aid airdrops help Israel's 'overall blockade strategy' - report

Jeremy Konyndyk, the president of Refugees International, has said that the amount of aid delivered in airdrops is so “negligible” that it helps “perpetuate the overall blockade strategy”.

“Facilitating airdrops - and driving media coverage around them - gives the public appearance that Israel is cooperating with humanitarian efforts,” said Konyndyk, who is also a former USAID official.

“The fact that they need be considered is a major policy failure,” he said in a post on social media.

According to Unrwa, the number of aid trucks entering the Gaza Strip has dropped by half in February compared with January.