Aboard a Jordanian military plane, aid crates are parachuted into Gaza, where war and blockade have pushed more than two million Palestinians to the brink of famine.

The Jordanian Air Force C-130's crew of eight soldiers pushes pallets of food out of the rear hatch.

Parachutes unfurl, and the crates -- stamped with the Jordanian flag -- drift toward the devastated Gaza Strip, nearly 22 months into the war, an AFP journalist on board reported.

Journalists were only allowed to film the airdrop operation but not the vast swathes of destruction during the two-hour flight, which overflew Palestinian territory for just a few minutes.

The flight departed a base near Amman and was joined by a second plane from the United Arab Emirates.

Approaching Gaza by sea, the........

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