US troops unload China's only known aid flight to earthquake-ravaged Venezuela as Americans surge relief

U.S. troops were seen unloading what Fox News Digital is told was China's lone assistance formation sent to Venezuela truthful acold arsenic the state continues to reel from past month's back-to-back earthquakes.

Photos provided by the U.S. authorities amusement an Air-China-branded level landing astatine Simon Bolivar Airport connected July 6, astir 2 weeks aft the quakes deed connected June 24.

The supplies from the Chinese authorities were past taken disconnected the craft by U.S. soldiers, who person been starring the catastrophe effect and assistance organisation efforts.

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An Air China-branded level lands astatine Simon Bolivar Airport successful Venezuela connected July 6, 2026, to present assistance from the Chinese government (United States Government)

In the photos provided to Fox News Digital, U.S. work members were seen lifting ample packages retired of shipping containers, utilizing ample vehicles to determination and signifier pallets connected the tarmac and loading boxes into trucks for transport.

"Secretary Rubio promised the Trump Administration's effect to the devastating earthquakes successful Venezuela would beryllium big, fast, and effective. We proceed to present connected that commitment," State Department spokesperson Tommy Pigott said successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"While immoderate countries accidental they'll present assistance — weeks aft earthy disasters hap — America shows up, unloads the aid, and ensures that assistance reaches the hands of those who genuinely request it acknowledgment to our adjacent coordination with the Department of War and the large public-private partnerships our Department has spearheaded," helium added.

The U.S. has moved much than 1.5 cardinal pounds of assistance into Venezuela since the earthquakes struck connected June 24, according to the State Department.

A large portion of that was repairing Simon Bolivar Airport, which sits conscionable extracurricular the superior metropolis of Caracas, aft its runways were earnestly damaged successful the earthy disaster.

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U.S. worker directs a instrumentality loader arsenic it moves pallets of assistance brought by the Chinese authorities connected July 6, 2026. (United States Government)

"The U.S. subject was capable to repair that airfield and get it up and moving to let for C-17 and different ample aircrafts to onshore there. And that’s precise important arsenic we proceed to evidently get planetary alleviation supplies in," a elder State Department authoritative told reporters successful precocious June.

Currently, 1 runway is operational astatine the airport, and 1 of the archetypal American flights into the airdrome was carrying forklifts to assistance get supplies unloaded disconnected aboriginal flights, according to the State Department official.

Florida-based Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), 1 of the starring nonprofits gathering and sending assistance to Venezuela, said it aims to present 100,000 boxes of supplies monthly for the adjacent 3 to six months, according to The Associated Press.

U.S worker drives a instrumentality loader afloat of supplies connected the Simon Bolivar Airport tarmac connected July 6, 2026. (United States Government)

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According to GEM's website, it has shipped astir 1 cardinal pounds of aid. This includes implicit 38,000 hygiene kits, much than 27,000 tents and tarps and 48 generators.

GEM laminitis and president Michael Capponi told the AP that delivering assistance to Venezuela present is simply a "whole antithetic animal" compared to erstwhile helium tried to nonstop supplies during the reign of Nicolás Maduro.

Maduro, who was captured and deposed during a U.S.-led raid connected Jan. 3, did not let Capponi into the country.

A U.S. worker undoes wrapping connected Chinese assistance to Venezuela connected July 6, 2026. (United States Government)

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"We onshore a backstage plane, it gets unloaded by U.S. soldiers, it goes successful a motortruck we wage for and to a warehouse that we wholly control. It doesn’t interaction the hands of the Venezuelan government," helium said.

The State Department said connected July 9 that the U.S. authorities has committed much than $386 cardinal for fiscal assistance to Venezuela flowing done trusted spouse groups. Meanwhile, the Chinese overseas curate announced successful precocious June a $14.72 cardinal committedness for fiscal and worldly assistance to Venezuela, according to Chinese state-run media.

Nearly 2 weeks aft the earthquakes struck, Chinese authorities media reported astir what they called the archetypal batch of assistance arriving to Simon Bolivar International Airport connected July 6. State media said Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yvan Gil and Chinese Ambassador to Venezuela Lan Hu received the shipment, said to see tents and generators, astatine the airport.

In precocious June, the U.S. besides mobilized much than 300 hunt and rescue unit passim the country. The Miami Herald reported past week that those teams near aft they "completed their mission."

Relatives of missing radical hunt for victims amid the rubble of a collapsed gathering successful Caraballeda, La Guaira State, Venezuela connected July 13, 2026, pursuing the June 24 duplicate earthquakes. (Martin Bernetti / AFP via Getty Images)

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As of Tuesday, 4,734 radical person died from the earthquakes, according to figures released by the Venezuelan government, cited by Reuters. Additionally, determination are astatine slightest 16,740 radical injured, portion astir 18,000 radical are homeless.

The earthquakes person destroyed 190 buildings and damaged implicit 850, Venezuelan officials told the AP.

Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace, Reuters and The Associated Press contributed to this report.