Air deops

As Admial Kirby spoke of at the White House press briefing today (aboit 7 minutes in), the US is planning to do some air food drops into Gaza, due to the danger to aid ground convoys from mobs and looting.

This reminds me of the situation in the 90s in Somalia, in which the US did food drops due to food being stolen by warlords and criminals on the ground. Here's a bit from Wikipedia: 1992 famine in Somalia.

[...] In 1991, Somalia's formal economy collapsed after several years of decline. That same year and during 1992, southern Somalia was struck by an exceptionally harsh drought. Concurrently, traditional coping methods broke down as the civil war spread into the south and law enforcement disintegrated. The largest contributing factor behind the famine was the devastation inflicted on infrastructure and farmland by warfare in the agricultural inter-riverine regions.

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In early 1992, as relief agencies initiated their operations, they encountered growing obstacles in delivering aid to the impacted inter-riverine region. The disintegration of Somali law enforcement paved the way for armed looters and criminals to steal food from storage sites and supply routes. In certain affected areas, armed banditry on these routes emerged as a significant concern. To safeguard their supplies, NGOs and relief agencies contracted Somali mercenaries or local gangs, equipped with improvised combat vehicles, to escort their convoys.

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US aid airlifts to the Red Cross that began in August 1992 and gone on until December has been credited with saving around 40,000 lives ...

About the event in Gaza in which the aid trucks were stormed by a nob ... what actually happened is in dispute. It's depressing, though, that most people and news organizations prefer to believe the terrorists over the Israelis.