Brief: Starvation deaths mount in Gaza, Israel intercepts Handala
The Take
Al Jazeera
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🗓️ 27 July 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
This week, airdrops of aid are once more injuring Palestinians in Gaza. Israel intercepted the Handala. It is day 660 of the war in Gaza, where at least 59,733 Palestinians have been killed.
In this episode:
- Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera Correspondent
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| 0:00.0 | I'm David Enders, and this is the take. |
| 0:05.0 | As Israel's war on Gaza, Lebanon, and Syria continues, we're coming to you on Sundays with a weekly roundup. |
| 0:13.0 | Air drops of aid are once more injuring Palestinians in Gaza. Israel intercepted the Handalah. Today is Sunday, July 27. It is day 660 of the war in |
| 0:26.5 | Gaza, where at least 59,733 Palestinians have been killed. On Sunday, Israel announced it would |
| 0:37.0 | pause military operations in some parts of Gaza to allow aid to enter. |
| 0:41.6 | But it is too late for many. |
| 0:43.6 | So far, at least 127 Palestinians in Gaza have starved to death as Israel continues to severely restrict aid coming into the area. |
| 0:52.8 | The Israeli military also announced it had dropped a small |
| 0:55.6 | amount of aid from aircraft into Gaza on Sunday, a development that Hani Mahmoud, Al Jazeera's |
| 1:01.3 | correspondent there, said would make little difference. There were also initial reports that |
| 1:06.5 | at least 11 Palestinians were injured by the falling pallets of aid. |
| 1:16.1 | We're talking about all these seven pallets of AIDS sold with a flower, another basic necessity. That's almost the load of one truck or half of a truck coming from the |
| 1:22.8 | crossings into the Gaza Strip. This is not the first time a drop of food happening. It happened |
| 1:28.0 | months ago. It did not go very well. In fact, there were many of the distant families who were |
| 1:33.7 | killed by the unpredictable falling pallets and packages on their tents. So the fear now, the timing |
| 1:40.1 | is very critical. It's night time. There are no lights and the air drop happened in the northern |
| 1:45.5 | part of the strip. Eyewitnesses reported seeing at least two to three cargo planes flying at a |
| 1:52.4 | very low level above the shore of the northern part of the Gaza Strip where the air drop of pallets |
| 2:00.7 | happened. But it's an area that is restricted in terms of Gaza Strip where the air drop of pallets happen. |
| 2:01.3 | But it's an area that is restricted in terms of movement. |
| 2:05.8 | It's in the line of the fire of the Israeli military, very close to the Zikkim crossing in the northern part of the strip, |
| 2:11.7 | and I believe hundreds of tanks are stationed in that area. |
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