Around ten planes spent the day delivering several tonnes of food which were dropped from the air at more than a dozen different locations in north Gaza. On the ground, a Sky crew saw a sudden surge as the crowd ran towards the parachutes floating down on the horizon.
There's a renewed urgency to the delivery of food to Gaza but it's still struggling to keep pace with the escalating humanitarian catastrophe inside the besieged enclave. We joined the small kingdom of Jordan's air force crew coordinating the multi-nation coalition to get aid to the thousands of Gazans cut off in the north of the Strip.
'Bleak horizon of flattened homes' One airman told us on condition of anonymity, because he was not authorised to talk to the media, of their pride in his country leading the airdrop effort to help hungry Palestinians. Jordan is home to the highest number of Palestinians in the world living outside of the territories, and so feels a special bond with what's going on in Gaza. The Jordanian Queen, Rania, is of Palestinian origin.
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