Following an almost three-month blockade, ‘s government announced the decision to allow limited food aid into .
In the last few days, the debate around aid deliveries to the enclave has been accompanied by fake and misleading information online.
debunked some of the viral videos.
Is China providing aid from the sky?
Claim: This post on X from May 17, 2025, with over ten thousand views, purports to show China delivering aid by dropping it from the sky in Gaza.
DW Fact check: False
In the 32-second video, 20 to 30 packages are seen falling from the sky with parachutes attached.
The post is accompanied by a text listing Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, followed by numbers for each place. There is no reference to what these numbers mean.
The figures could refer to recently announced investments and economic exchange frameworks between those countries and the United States.
The post ends by claiming that the video shows China providing aid to Gaza from the sky.
A reverse image search leads us to photographs of airdrops done in Gaza with similar parachutes. Those humanitarian aid deliveries took place at the beginning of March 2024.
During that time, several countries from the sky in Gaza, as Israel blocked aid from crossing the border by land. This did not include China.
Highly limited aid deliveries
It is difficult to geolocate where the original video was taken because of the widespread destruction in Gaza and rapidly changing landmarks.
Additionally, there is limited access to Google Street View in Gaza.
The account that posted the video on X seems to belong to a woman from Pakistan who joined the platform in 2011.
She doesn’t seem to be the person who took the video, as it previously appeared on another account at the beginning of April.
The video and claim circulated at a time when aid deliveries are highly limited as Israel stopped deliveries of humanitarian aid in Gaza on March 2, 2025.
On April 1st, the video gathered 52.3 million views on TikTok and the claim that China was responsible for the airdrop only came up in the comment section.
In the following days, several posts with the same video appeared. This one shares screenshots repeating the claim of China’s involvement, and otherscombine different videos to make new edits and posts that have also gathered millions of views.
China has not released any official statements that it had airdropped aid into Gaza. The last reported deliveries of aid from the Chinese government date to February 19th this year and were transported in trucks.
Even as limited aid deliveries into Gaza have currently resumed, these only refer to land deliveries.
Did Chinese fighter jets fly over the pyramids on their way to Gaza?
Claim: This post on X, which has been viewed over 270,000 times, allegedly shows Chinese fighter jets and a Chinese cargo plane flying over the Great Pyramid of Giza complex in Egypt on their way to drop aid and supplies to Gaza.
DW Fact check: False
The user who posted the clip on X on May 18, who identifies himself as a Kenyan parliamentary aspirant, describes the scenes as “iconic images.”
A reverse image search of the clip reveals a large number of posts with similar messages on other platforms, including YouTube, TikTok, Instagramand Threads.
However, the footage is older and does not show aid delivery by the Chinese military.
A reverse image search shows clips suggesting that the images are from April and refer to a military drill unrelated to Gaza. Here’s one social media example in Portuguese.
This context is further confirmed by an advanced internet search for military exercises in Egypt in the last few months.
In April, China and Egypt launched their first joint military training, codenamed “Eagles of Civilization 2025,” as confirmed hereby the Egyptian government and hereby the Chinese Ministry of Defence.
Several pictures of the joint exercises were published by news agencies, including those of military jets flying over the pyramids.
Furthermore, Chinese state-owned media outlet CGTN published video material of the exercise under the headline “Jets over pyramids.”
Not the only false videos
The two false videos above are not the only ones that have circulated online in recent days.
Others include further videos taken out of context, like this one with 3 million likes on TikTok.
It was taken in October 2024 and included aid from the US and France. The German armed forces also took part in this.
This other one was originally taken in March 2024, as Jordan opened the airlift to drop aid over Gaza.
Both also show military airplanes dropping aid from the sky, but the claim of Chinese involvement is false.
This article is part of a collaboration between Germany’s public broadcasting fact-checking teams ARD-Faktenfinder, BR24 #Faktenfuchs and DW Fact check.
Edited by: Rachel Baig
The post Fact check: Did Chinese fighter jets deliver aid to Gaza? appeared first on Deutsche Welle.
