<h6>Eduardo González</h6> <h4><strong>A Spanish Air Force A400 has safely dropped 12 tons of food over the Gaza Strip. This amounts to approximately 5,500 food rations, which will feed approximately 11,000 people.</strong></h4> "The drop of 12 tons of humanitarian aid over Gaza was carried out without incident from an Air Force A400 aircraft, in a joint operation between the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation," the Ministry of Defense reported in a press release. Hours earlier, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, announced in a video the shipment of "humanitarian aid by air using a military aircraft from our Air Force, an A400." “We are going to launch approximately 24 parachutes, each with a capacity of 500 kilograms. A total of 12,000 kilograms, approximately 5,500 food rations that can feed around 11,000 people,” he specified. This first shipment, he added, is in addition to “the trucks with Spanish humanitarian aid waiting at the border of the Gaza Strip.” In the video, Albares reiterated that “the induced famine that Gazans are suffering is a disgrace for all of humanity. We are talking about daily deaths from hunger, 100,000 children, and 40,000 babies at risk of death.” “In this difficult moment, we must mobilize the entire international community, not tomorrow, not next week, but now,” he warned. “Spain is the country in the world that is doing the most for Palestine, and we are doing it for justice and for the most basic humanity,” he continued. “This war must end. We already know that the air route is clearly insufficient. We demand much more. Israel must permanently open all land crossings to allow the massive entry of humanitarian aid. We demand a ceasefire that allows the distribution of aid in Gaza under the principles of humanitarianism and neutrality,” he warned. “I encourage those countries that have not yet done so to follow Spain's lead and recognize, as we did in May 2024, the State of Palestine to protect the two-state solution to end this war and this famine, to guarantee stability, peace, and security for all, including Israel in the Middle East, because this is not about sides, it's about saving lives,” Albares insisted. “It is time to move from words to action, as Spain has been doing for many months now,” he concluded.
