Palestine, July 28 -- Airdrops of food are not the answer as tons of food, medicine, and humanitarian aid sit on the other side of Gazan borders, blocked by Israeli authorities from entering the Strip.

Airdrops are ineffective and dangerous and will force people to risk their lives for food, said Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) today.

As Israeli authorities' deliberate use of starvation as a weapon in Gaza has reached unprecedented levels and people continue to be killed in violence at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) aid distribution sites, Israel must fully lift its inhumane siege on Gaza and abandon the ineffective GHF scheme to distribute aid, and allow humanitarian actors to freely provide lifesaving assist...