In October 2023, a war between Israel and Gaza ensued. When the war is still ongoing,a video with a claim is going viral on the internet. A user on X, with the username ‘DrEliDavid’ posted the viral video. With the video they claimed “Israel Air Force bombs falling on Gaza sorry for the typo, Israel is dropping aid packages. It is the most that has ever happened in history that a state is feeding its opponent in the middle of the war.” The video was posted on 27 July 2025.
There was also a similar video uploaded on YouTube by ‘aheard2345’. The video is posted with the description “Air drop of humanitarian aid to Gaza. Israel (IDF) alone is starving Gazans as given by HAMAS”.
Fact Check
DFRAC undertook an in-depth study of the viral video and the claim and found it to be misleading. Key frames of the video under consideration were searched on google images. We found the same video on YouTube posted on 28 July 2025 by a channel called ‘WaqasAhd8’. The caption of the video reads “Two Jordan Air Force C- 130 aircraft and one Emirati Air Craft Air Drop total of 25 tonnes of aid to Gaza”.
An account on X also uploaded the same video, bearing the username ‘coinbase565’. The caption says, “a good gesture Israel has given the green light to food to be dropped again in Gaza by Arab states”.
Upon searching the keywords of the viral statement on the internet, an article by the ‘Hindustan Times’ came up. This article is titled, “UAE airdrop 25 tons of aid to Gaza first time in months” published on 27 July 2025. The article also states that “25 tonnes of aid were reported to have been dropped to Gaza as 2 Jordanian Air Force C-130 Planes and an Emirati Plane dropped the aid and this was the first in months”.
We found another article by ‘Reuters’, published on 28 July 2025. The article bears the name “Israel announces daily breaks in fighting in Gaza as it airdrops aid”. The article goes further to report that “on Sunday (27 July) Israel said it would suspend military activity in some areas of Gaza 10 hours a day and also open new supply routes at the same time Jordan and the United Arab Emirates were airdropping aid into the Strip, where appalling pictures of emaciated Palestinians have sickened the world.”
Conclusion
All those trusted sources assure that Israel is not airdropping any aid in Gaza. It has simply permitted Jordan and the UAE to deliver relief in Gaza. Hence, it is confirmed that the claim about the viral video is misleading. Those who are giving assistance to Gaza are UAE and Jordan and not Israel.
