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00:00 Planes flew over southern Gaza Sunday morning, leaving a trail of aid crates falling to earth
00:06 in their wake.
00:07 For the first time, Germany is actively participating in the airdrops taking off from Jordan, with
00:13 one of its aircraft joining others from Egypt and the United States.
00:18 "Germany has long been involved in facilitating humanitarian aid to Gaza with financial support,
00:26 aid supplies, and now also with the airdropping of aid supplies, which of course is not ideal.
00:33 The best way to do this would be with more trucks via border checkpoints."
00:41 Sending aid by air has been plagued with technical snags, as it is difficult to control where
00:46 the aid goes, with some of it falling into the sea or into Israel.
00:51 The United Nations has repeatedly warned of looming famine in the Gaza Strip, as for months
00:57 Israel had only allowed a trickle of aid to enter from one overland checkpoint via Egypt.
01:03 In search of new avenues, aid organizations have begun delivering aid via a new water
01:08 corridor from Cyprus to Gaza.
01:12 Sea shipments arrived for the first time on Friday, with aid organizations warning that
01:17 boats are insufficient to replace land routes.
01:21 Israel announced last week that it would facilitate increased humanitarian aid.
01:26 It let six aid trucks enter directly into northern Gaza in a test run to decide if it
01:32 would allow more.