BBC is traveling with the first Jordanian helicopter giving help to Gaza

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Jordan helicopters have started delivering Gaza help – the first after the truce between Israel and Hamas has been announced.

The scene from the air is revealed by the lunch fog – gray ruins and a lifeless landscape.

As we land, the men from the Jordanian Air Force pop up first and make sure there is one of the world’s food program to receive help.

A lonely figure in a high-vis jacket is approaching.

Next to a fence with a barbed wire, two trucks are waiting to bring help to the nearby Khan ENNIS.

There are no formalities. The help is quickly unloaded. The helicopter rotors continue to rotate all the time.

There is a sense of real emergency – there are 14 more helicopters waiting to follow us to the landing area.

The BBC was allowed to join the mission that landed on Israeli territory in the southern gas between the Israeli border and the city of Vadi Al-Salka.

Although this is only the edge of the conflict area, the area next to the landing lane looks like a wasteland after a 15 -month war.

I saw what the Israeli digging machines operating in the area looked like.

The Jordanians deployed 16 helicopters for the operation on Tuesday.

They deliver medical supplies and a baby formula that could be spoiled if they are transported on a long trip.

The official spokesman for the Jordan government, Dr. Mohammed Al-Momani, told me that the scenes of human suffering in Gaza are “horrifying … and inhuman.”

He said Jordan is joining the international community to try to alleviate suffering.

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