France took part in airdrops that delivered much-needed humanitarian aid to Gaza in the early days of Israel's response to Hamas' attack on October 7, 2023.

France – alongside other European nations – is pursuing airdrops of humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip, with the help of Middle East partners. However, it insists that fully opening land crossings is the only efficient way to help the more than two million Palestinians who aid agencies say are facing starvation.

Airdropped aid continued to fall in Gaza Tuesday with desperate Palestinians struggling to collect what they could as food packages often land in far areas or in the so-called red zones controlled by the Israeli military.