That’s when I started to realize the extent to which these airdrop missions depend on immense efforts involving logistics, security, coordination, and deconfliction with the Israeli military. For two days, on August 25 and 26, I was part of an aerial convoy that included five cargo planes from four countries (Jordan, the UAE, Indonesia, and Germany) executing food airdrops over central Gaza. Improvements of systems for delivering and distributing food and humanitarian supplies brought a halt to the expensive and risky method of airdrops. Thieves, merchants of death, Hamas members, and looters have intercepted a large number of the United Nations’ aid trucks and convoys, according to the data provided by the international body itself. Further readingImage: Displaced Palestinians, fleeing northern Gaza due to an Israeli military operation, move southward after Israeli forces ordered residents of Gaza City to evacuate to the south.