At least five people died and another 10 were injured this Friday (8), when humanitarian aid packages dropped from the sky fell on them in the Al Shati camp, west of Gaza City, according to a journalist at the scene who witnessed the incident.
Khader Al Zaanoun told CNN who witnessed aid packages falling from planes over the Al Shati camp, but could not confirm which nation was behind the airdrop.
Muhammad Al-Sheikh, head of the Emergency Care Department at Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, confirmed that five people died in the incident.
Some of those injured in the incident and transferred to Al Shifa hospital are in serious condition, according to Al-Sheikh.
The US and other countries have been airlifting humanitarian aid to Gaza amid warnings from the United Nations that hundreds of thousands of people in the besieged Palestinian territory are on the brink of starvation.
The first US delivery took place last Saturday, delivering 38,000 meals along the Gaza coast, in a combined operation with Jordan.
After the plans were announced by US President Joe Biden last Friday, aid agencies criticized them as ineffective given the scale of need in Gaza.
Richard Gowan, UN director of the International Crisis Group, said: “Aid workers often complain that airdrops are good photo opportunities but a terrible way to deliver aid.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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