Jordanian helicopters begin flying in aid to Gaza
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Nick Miles, and at 14 Hours GMT on Tuesday 28th January, these are our main stories. We hear from our correspondent, who's been on a rare aid trip with the Jordanian military inside Gaza. Hospitals overwhelmed, dead bodies on the streets. What can stop the battle for Goma raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo? And the dramatic rise of the new chatbot, DeepSeek, and the concerns from some that it's a vehicle for Chinese spies.
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It could be a reality within the next 10 years. We examine the ethical issues. As hundreds of thousands of Gazans continue to walk back to find what's left of their homes in northern Gaza, Jordanian helicopters have begun deliveries of aid to the territory, the first since the ceasefire was declared. The BBC joined the mission, the first international media organisation to fly into Israeli-held territory in southern Gaza since this ceasefire. Our correspondent Fergal Keane was on board. He's now back at the Alzaka Air Base in Jordan, and he told me what he saw.
We went to an area in the south... and it is very close to Can Yunis. When we landed, they kept the rotor blades running. We jumped off the helicopter to get out of the way, really, of the Jordanian forces who were delivering the aid. Now, what was taken in this morning, and you can probably hear choppers behind me at the moment... Still ongoing, this operation, but they brought in medicine in particular and also baby formula. Why is that important? Well, if you put those things, for example, on a long road journey, and there have been lots of road convoys from Jordan, there is a danger that if they get delayed... then they will spoil. And the need for medicine is acute. The health system in Gaza has been absolutely battered by months and months, 15 months of this war. And so that's why this air bridge, as the Jordanians are calling it, and which they've been joined in by the Italians, by the United Kingdom, is absolutely essential in terms of getting medical help to people who need it most.
Fergal, that aid, as you said, went into the south. What do we know about aid getting in for the hundreds of thousands of Gazans returning to Gaza City further north, where the need is going to be huge, isn't it?
I think most of that is going to be going in at the moment via road. Now, we have had a significant increase in the number of trucks being allowed to cross the border and bring aid in. But, you know, you set it against the scale of the need and the months and months and months of backed up need where you have around two million people displaced. I mean, you think about that figure.
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