Humanitarian aid dropped from the air caused the deaths of Gazans

At least five people were killed and several were injured from the impact of humanitarian aid pallets dropped from the air in the city of Gaza, in the north of the enclave, he confirmed. Civil protection of Strip.

“There were 5 martyrs and several injured as a result of the erroneous release of aid by a civilian plane, which fell on the heads and homes of citizens northwest of Gaza City this afternoon”Civil Protection spokesman Mahmud Basal said in a statement.

Given the difficulties in distributing humanitarian aid by land, several countries have been sending humanitarian aid for several weeks and launching it directly by air, especially in the north, where the situation is more complicated.

Jordan, Egypt, United Arab Emirates or FranceThey are some of the first countries to resort to this formula, joined by the US a week ago, and have since carried out three launches – in cooperation with Jordan – of 38,000 meals each.

He US President Joe Biden announced last night the construction of a temporary port off the coast of Gaza to facilitate the entry of aid through a maritime corridor that will open this weekend from Cyprus, in an initiative of the European Union and the United States, in which the United Kingdom or the Emirates will also participate.

In five months of war, more than 30,800 Palestinians died in the Strip, where famine also began to claim the lives of at least twenty people in the north.

Last February 27Thousands of Palestinians gathered on the beaches of the southern Gaza Strip to receive humanitarian aid delivered by plane from France, Qatar, Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates.

“Thank God!”, shouted one of the many Gazans who had gone to the beaches at the southern end of the Strip, as he made his way through the sand carrying a large sack of flour on his shoulders.

Like him, he was seen by the residents of Dier al Balah, in the center of the enclave, Khan Yunis, the largest municipality in the south of the enclave, and the city of Rafah, which borders Egypt and has a coast on the Mediterranean Sea. parachute packages of humanitarian aid fall from the sky.

The packages also landed on the Al Rashid coastal road, and according to witnesses, they contained sacks of flour and sugar.

Help arrived from seven planes, three from Jordan, and the rest from Egypt, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and France for the care of thousands of citizens on the verge of starvation.