France and Jordan teamed up to airdrop seven tons of urgent humanitarian and medical aid into the besieged Gaza Strip.
Jordan has previously carried out drops in Gaza. It was the first time the French air force had directly taken part in such an operation.
The aid is for a field hospital set up in the city of Khan Younis, in the south of the enclave.
France has so far supplied about 1,000 tons of aid into the enclave over land.
A French presidency official said the operation, which took place on Thursday night, involved a French aircraft and a Jordanian plane.
“In a difficult context, France and Jordan delivered aid by air to the population and those aiding them,” Macron wrote on X (formerly Twitter).
“The humanitarian situation remains critical in Gaza” after three months of conflict, he added.
The official declined to say what exactly was dropped or whether Israel had given the green light to the operation.
Israel had approved a previous Jordanian air-dropped aid mission in November.
The airdrops come three months after Hamas militants from Gaza attacked southern Israel, killing around 1,200 people and taking around 240 people hostage.
The attacks led to the current Israeli military operation against Hamas in Gaza, which has led to the deaths of more than 22,000 people.
Nearly 2 million people — roughly 85% of the population — have been displaced, according to the UN. The humanitarian situation inside the Strip remains dire, with food, clean water and medicines in short supply.
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Good, unfortunately totally insufficient. For 2 million people humanitarian aid should be delivered via the beaches by the navies of several countries. Why is that not happening? scared to be called anti semitic?