With Israel maintaining a blockade of Gaza as it continues its war on Hamas, aid groups and countries are airlifting aid into the enclave.

After a Jordanian military plane made an airdrop, desperate Gazans scrambled over the pallets to grab boxes of food.

“What can these airdrops do for us?” asks a 71-year-old Gazan unable to join the race for food. “The poor, the elderly — they get nothing.”

OVER THE GAZA STRIP — The Jordanian air force C-130 Hercules cargo plane banked in a slow arc over the Mediterranean, pointing its nose toward Gaza for its approach — the final stage of the intricate ballet that is dropping aid over the war-ravaged enclave.

Earlier, in a cavernous hangar at a Royal Jordanian Air Force base, soldiers from Jordan, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, United Arab Emi

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