German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says that Germany plans to establish a humanitarian airlift to Gaza.

According to Merz, the airlift will be established in cooperation with Jordan. Berlin will also cooperate with London and Paris in the work on the airlift.

Israel announced on Friday that it would reopen the airlift of aid into Gaza. Both Saturday and Sunday, aid was flown into the Palestinian enclave by airdrop.

Aid organizations are critical of this way of transporting emergency aid. They point out that it is very expensive, dangerous for people on the ground, and that the airdrops can only cover a fraction of what could otherwise easily have been transported by truck if Israel had allowed it.

Israel has long been under international pressure to deliver emergency aid to Palestinian civilians, and several countries and aid organizations have warned of a famine in the Gaza Strip if this does not happen.

Israeli authorities have repeatedly disputed this.