STORY: Several countries on Sunday (August 3) conducted seven airdrops carrying 61 tonnes of aid onto Gaza, the Jordanian military said.

The operation included two aircraft from the Royal Jordanian Air Force, two from the Federal Republic of Germany, one from the United Arab Emirates, one from France, and one from Belgium, the military added in a statement.

Meanwhile, six more people died of starvation and malnutrition in Gaza over the past 24 hours, its health ministry said, underlining the enclave's humanitarian emergency.

The new deaths raised the toll of those dying from what international humanitarian agencies say may be an unfolding famine to 175, including 93 children, since the war began, the ministry said.

Israel blames Hamas for the suffering in Gaza but, in response to a rising international outcry, it announced steps last week to let more aid reach the population, including pausing fighting for part of the day in some areas, approving air drops and announcing protected routes for aid convoys.

United Nations agencies have said that airdrops of food are insufficient and that Israel must let in far more aid by land and open up access to the war-devastated territory where starvation has been spreading.

COGAT, the Israeli military agency that coordinates aid, said 35 trucks have entered Gaza since June, nearly all of them in July.

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SHOWS: ZARQA, JORDAN (AUGUST 3, 2025) (REUTERS - Access all)

1. VARIOUS OF TRUCK CARRYING AID PARCELS IN FRONT OF MILITARY AIRCRAFT AT KING ABDULLAH II AIR BASE

2. VARIOUS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL LOADING AID PARCELS INSIDE AIRCRAFT

3. MILITARY PLANES PARKED

4. VARIOUS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL TALKING TO EACH OTHER

5. MILITARY AIRCRAFT PARKED

6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) C130J PILOT FROM GERMAN FRENCH SQUADRON, MAJOR PIERRICK, SAYING:

“This operation is a collaboration between France and Jordan and other many countries and Jordan is in charge of the pre-delivery of food and supplies that we are delivering to Gaza. So France don’t really know because when it arrives, it arrives already conditioned, ready to deliver so we don’t have the exact definition of what’s in there. French people and French military people actually making sure that loads are correctly set up for a drop but we don’t have its content, it’s just the weight and the basic value of this.”

7. VARIOUS OF AID PARCELS INSIDE AIRCRAFT

IN AIR (AUGUST 3, 2025) (REUTERS – Access all)

8. VARIOUS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL ARRANGING AID INSIDE AIRCRAFT

9. AIRCRAFT DOOR OPENING

10. VARIOUS OF AID CRATES BEING UNLOADED FROM PLANE IN AIR VIA PARACHUTE

11. VARIOUS OF MILITARY PERSONNEL STANDING, LOOKING ONTO AIR FROM INSIDE AIRCRAFT