Does a video show China air-dropping humanitarian aid into Gaza in May 2025? No, that's not true: The video is from March 2024, when U.S. military planes dropped food and supplies onto a beach in Beit Lahiya, Gaza. Other videos posted at the time show the same scene, and news reports documented the event. There is no evidence that China has delivered aid to Gaza via parachute.
The claim appeared in a post (archived here) shared on X on May 17, 2025, with a caption that read:
This is not Saudi Arabia's 600 Billion
This is not Qatar's 1.2 Trillion
This is not UAE's 1.4 Trillion
This is china dropping air aids in Gaza today.
What a shame for Arabia world.
#riyadh #ChiaraPoggi #Gaza #IsraelTerroristState
This is what the post looked like at the time of writing:
(Source: screenshot of X by Lead Stories)
The Guardian newspaper published an online report (archived here) on March 26, 2025, titled "Twelve people reported drowned off a Gaza beach trying to reach aid drop" documenting the American delivery of humanitarian supplies. This image used in the report showed the same parachutes, tower, and landscape.
This Turkish news report (archived here) published on March 24, 2024, includes video of the same parachutes, tower, and landscape.
(Source: screenshot of https://www.yenisafak.com/ by Lead Stories)
A Google search for "China Gaza airdrop" yields no results supporting the claim that Chinese military planes dropped aid to Gaza. It does, however, show fact checks debunking the claim.
Lead Stories previously fact-checked a similar claim that China's planes buzzed Egypt's Giza pyramids on the way to drop aid to Gaza:
