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Jordan, Israel Coordinate Airdrop of Medical Aid to Gaza Hospital
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The Facts
Jordan's King Abdullah II announced on Monday that the country airdropped "urgent medical aid" to a Jordanian field hospital in the Gaza Strip as concerns regarding supply shortages at overcrowded hospitals grow amid Israel's conflict with Hamas.
Jordan's state news agency reported that "supplies were about to run out due to the delay of delivering aid through Rafah crossing," thus necessitating the airdrop.
The Spin
Pro-Palestine narrative
Though the Jordanian airdrop of aid into Gaza is an important move to alleviate the strip's worsening humanitarian crisis, it's merely a drop in the bucket as Gaza faces shortages of food, water, electricity, and fuel caused by Israel’s blockade and relentless and reckless bombing. Israel has created an unprecedented humanitarian crisis.
Pro-Israel narrative
Israel is well aware of the suffering of Gazans under Hamas's terrorist leadership and has been open to allowing the flow of humanitarian aid into the strip. Tel Aviv is focused on the national security priority of defeating Hamas, which has been trying to steal aid meant for civilians, and has absolutely no interest in causing unnecessary suffering for civilians.
