Airdropped Aid Fell On People In Gaza Again, Crushing A 15-Year-Old Boy To Death
Aid airdrops have killed at least four other people in Gaza the last week, including a nurse and an 11-year-old boy was also crushed to death by the aid packages, according to Anadolu Agency.
Airdropped aid fell on Palestinians in Gaza again, crushing and killing a 15-year-old boy and injuring many others.
Videos shared on Saturday, Aug. 9, showed an airdropped aid package crashing down from the sky, in an incident that killed 15-year-old Muhannad Zakaria Eid near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza.
Aid airdrops have killed at least four other people in Gaza the last week, including a nurse and an 11-year-old boy was also crushed to death by the aid packages, according to Anadolu Agency.
Earlier in March 2024, an airdropped aid package crashed into a building while falling from the sky, damaging homes and injuring people on the ground.
In another incident, 12 people died after they drowned trying to reach airdropped aid packages that landed in the sea.
At least 23 people have been killed and 124 others injured by falling aid boxes since Oct. 7, 2023, according to Gaza’s media office.
Humanitarian groups have criticized airdrops as insufficient, costly, inefficient and dangerous, saying it’s a "smokescreen" or "humanitarian theater."
This is because airdrops provide only a fraction of the needed aid compared to truck deliveries and often create risks of injury and chaotic scenes where people fight for limited parcels
Israel has only allowed “minimal aid” through airdrops and limited aid trucks to enter Gaza to feed 2.3 million people since it began a ‘tactical pause” to facilitate aid deliveries, a drop in the ocean from the 600 aid trucks needed daily to begin to tackle the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Hamas condemned the airdrops and limited corridors as symbolic moves that do not address the root causes of the crisis and continue to endanger civilians.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) global initiative has issued a warning saying that the "worst-case scenario of famine” is now unfolding in Gaza as Israel's genocide has now killed more than 60,034 people.
At least 217 people, including 100 children, have been killed due to malnutrition in Gaza since Oct. 7, 2023.
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