Peloni: Ben Gvir is correct. The solution to any want of food stuffs in Gaza is not to support Hamas’ ability to control the Gazan people, or even to get aid to the Gazan people. It is to finish taking control of the remaining 30% while effecting Trump’s vision of allowing the Gazans to leave, regardless of the preference of keeping the Gazans caged in Gaza by the Saudis, the Qataris, the Emiratis or anyone else.
Herzog calls on UN, NGOs to ‘do their part’ to ensure aid reaches Gaza residents
| Published: July 27, 2025
The IDF announced that it had carried out an airdrop of humanitarian aid for the first time as part of the ongoing efforts to increase aid into the Gaza Strip.
While other nations have conducted humanitarian aid airdrops into Gaza throughout the war, this marks the first time that the IDF has done so, in an apparent response to significant international pressure to improve the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The military said the airdrop was carried out “in accordance with the directives of the political echelon.”
In an apparent recognition that such a move would not be well received among some of the Israeli population, the IDF’s announcement was only made on its English Telegram and ? accounts.
Around the same time, the military also announced the resumption of humanitarian pauses in parts of the Gaza Strip, in order “to increase the scale of humanitarian aid entering Gaza.”
The IDF emphasized that the humanitarian pauses “will begin in the areas where the IDF is not operating: Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah, and Gaza City.” The military said the decision “was coordinated with the UN and international organizations,” and would coincide with the establishment of “designated secure routes,” which would operate “from 06:00 to 23:00 to enable the safe passage of UN and humanitarian aid organization convoys delivering and distributing food and medicine to the population across the Gaza Strip.”
On Sunday morning, following the IDF’s announcements, Egyptian media reported that aid trucks began driving towards the border with Israel, where they will be inspected before being allowed entry into the Strip.
The Egyptian Al-Qahera News agency reported the entry of the first aid trucks into the Gaza Strip later on Sunday morning.
“Humanitarian aid trucks move from Egypt to the Gaza Strip carrying large quantities of food supplies,” the agency reported on its ? channel.
President Isaac Herzog praised the “major steps announced by the Israeli leadership and military to strengthen and upgrade the humanitarian response in Gaza.”
“In coordination with international partners, Israel is doing its utmost to improve the flow of vital supplies through designated corridors, airdrops, and expanded humanitarian zones,” Herzog wrote.
Herzog also called on the UN and its partner NGOs to “do their part” in ensuring aid reaches Gaza residents “without delay.”
Israel and the UN have traded accusations over the failure of aid to enter the Gaza Strip in recent weeks. With COGAT, the IDF’s unit coordinating activities in the enclave, recently releasing photos and videos showing hundreds of trucks worth of aid sitting on the Gaza side of the border after having been inspected by the IDF. The organization noted that the UN and its partners had not collected the aid.
On Saturday evening, COGAT and the IDF highlighted the efforts by the UN to collect and distribute that aid after Israeli criticism of the world body online.
The decision to increase aid into the Gaza Strip was criticized by members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet, including National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, who claimed that he and his political partner, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich, had been excluded from the call in which the decision was made because of their opposition to the move.
“The only way to win the war and return the hostages is to completely stop ‘humanitarian’ aid, occupy the entire Strip and encourage voluntary migration,” Ben Gvir said.
This appears as if the whole story has been turned on its head!
First, Israel starts dropping supplies to the Gazans by air, second, the Egyptians, who we have heard about since long before the start of the war would not assist in any way, have suddenly started providing aid through Rafah, third, the UAE and Jordan are allowed to fly over Israel to airdrop on the Gaza Strip.
It sounds as if either the Israel Supreme Court or Netanyahu have dramatically changed their intentions about this war.
We hear daily that Israeli soldiers are killed while inspecting buildings in many towns in the Gaza Strip that have been booby trapped. They should be bombing or shelling any suspect building and checking for secondary explosions instead.
Please, please, get some common sense back in there!
@dreuveni
Perfectly explained!
The BBC has been airing a blood libel by an aid worker who the IDF says had been fired for “inappropriate behavior” to the effect that he witnessed the IDF massacring civilians waiting for food. This aid worker is a former special forces officer and Green Beret and one of the two people in charge of the American aid organization in charge of distributing food was the head of USAID which we know distributed billions in aid to Gaza between Oct 7, 2023 and February 2025. The articles, including Wikipedia, then goes on to quote the Gaza Health Ministry, i.e., Hamas, corroborating his story. Sounds like a rogue CIA setup to smear Israel to me. Israel must not trust anyone else or delegate anything. That’s the lesson I see.
Sebastien good information
His name in this BBC report is Anthony Aguilar
https://g.co/kgs/DgjzLUm
Your comment suggests he has previously contact as in charge of USAID can you clear that up it’s a little ambiguous, just that part
Jeremy Bowen is right at the top of the BBC Gaza reporting.
If it can be proven anything shady about Anthony Aguilar then that will be a very big blow struck for Israel and truth.
What might be the best steps ahead?