The airdrop came only a few days after Canadian aid had been sent into Gaza. That effort was conducted by Jordan, which borders Israel and the West Bank. At the time, Anand posted a photo of pallets with Canadian flags taped to them.
The airdrop came only a few days after Canadian aid had been sent into Gaza. That effort was conducted by Jordan, which borders Israel and the West Bank. At the time, Anand posted a photo of pallets with Canadian flags taped to them.
Assuming it’s all rice, Canada dropped enough food to feed around 30,000 people for a day just enough for them not to die (1Kg of rice has 3580kcal which at minimum required food levels can feed about 3 people and Canada dropped 21.600 pounds, which is a bit less than 10.000Kg)
Gaza used to have about 2 million people, probably 1.5 million now after Israel murdered hundreds of thousands, so assuming the entirety of that drop was used and none spoiled, Canada just fed all of 2% of Gazans for a single day.
Meanwhile Canada keeps on sending weapons to Israel.
This is nothing less than a cynical PR action, and an insulting one at that.
If the side effects of this in reducing the pressure of Canadian public opinion on the Canadian Government delay the actual execution by the latter of effective measures such as sanctions on Israel by a 1 week it will vastly exceed the positive effect of giving 30,000 Gazans an extra day to live, meaning this isn’t actually a good thing at all, not even in the smallest of ways.