The phrase "aid raid" is not a standard expression in written English and may cause confusion.
It could potentially be used in a specific context, such as discussing a situation involving assistance (aid) and a sudden attack or incursion (raid), but clarity would be needed.
Example: "The organization launched an aid raid to deliver supplies to the affected area during the crisis."
Alternatives: "assistance operation" or "relief mission".
Aid convoys, raided by desperate survivors in recent days, are facing another threat.
For example, last year the office of Tom DeLay, the majority whip, declared that "the president's requests for foreign aid would directly raid the Social Security trust fund".
A former head of the military's Special Operations Command, General Downing had authorized using AC-130 gunships to aid the Army raid in Somalia in 1993.
"We must stop raiding aid budgets to solve our own problems at the expense of the poorest people who desperately need more and better aid.
Just over a year after a similar aid flotilla was raided by Israeli forces, leaving nine people dead on a Turkish boat, aid workers from around Europe will attempt to get through Israel's sea blockade.
Rather than look to raid the aid budget to fund military operations, the Government should stick to the Prime Minister's pledge that Britain will not balance its books on the backs of the world's poorest.
Hours after freeing a kidnapped German aid worker in a raid in Kabul, the Afghan police identified her four kidnappers as local criminals who had demanded a million-dollar ransom, and not Taliban militants.
Links: Q&A: Israeli Deadly Raid on Aid Flotilla, BBC Bias Reporting by the Washington Post, Max Blumenthal, June 5th 2010.
Venezuela's government, which sent tank units to its border with Colombia in a response to the Colombian raid, denied aiding the rebels.
Bomber's Moon is a wonderfully evocative and emotional song about the fact that the full moon was an aid to wartime bombing raids in Lancaster Bombers.
