Can Gaza Survive on Airdropped Aid?

Can Gaza Survive on Airdropped Aid?

Airdropping aid, food, and supplies is expensive, inexact, and inefficient and usually only a last resort when your enemies have left you no other options. So why is the United States airdropping aid into Gaza, when the borders are controlled by America’s ally, Israel?


Guest: Jane Arraf, reporter for NPR based in the Middle East.


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