The Jordanian army announced that Jordan and the Netherlands dropped humanitarian and relief aid on the Gaza Strip, where 2.4 million people lack food, medicine, and basic necessities after four months of war.

The Jordanian army said in a statement carried by the Palestinian "Ma'an" agency: "Continuing the international efforts led by Jordan in organizing and supporting the sending of humanitarian and relief aid to the people in the Gaza Strip, the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Dutch Armed Forces carried out on Monday evening two joint air drops using (C-130) aircraft around the Jordanian field hospital in the northern Gaza Strip."

It added that the aid included "relief, humanitarian, and medical materials through dedicated boxes equipped with GPS-guided parachutes."

This is the eighth air drop operation carried out by the Jordanian Air Force since the start of the war.

Previous drops were allocated to the Jordanian field hospital and to people besieged inside a church in Gaza.

France participated with Jordan on January 5 by dropping seven tons of humanitarian and health aid in the Gaza Strip.