2024-03-08 21:53:15
The Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamic Hamas Resistance Movement, indicated in a statement that this type of aid delivery is “useless,” demanding the opening of corridors on land to achieve the “immediate” entry of thousands of tons of aid to “avoid famine.”
“The fall of aid packages has left five dead and several injured even though we have been warning that these operations are not ideal for delivering aid”the text states, warning that nearly 2.4 million people in the Gaza Strip “continue to suffer severe shortages of food, drinking water, medicines and shelters.”
Thus, the authorities indicated that the “catastrophic famine has already caused the death of twenty people, a number that will continue to increase daily due to malnutrition and dehydration.”
“This endangers the lives of more than 700,000 Palestinian citizens who are suffering from extreme hunger at this point,” they explained.
“We insist that these types of operations respond to propaganda more than to the idea of delivering humanitarian aid, (…) and that we have already been warning about what has happened. “These launches pose a death threat to the citizens of the Gaza Strip, and that is what happened today when the packages fell on the heads of the Palestinians.”they have maintained.
The Gazan authorities have held the “US Administration, the international community and the Israeli occupation forces” responsible for these actions. “Israel perpetrates a genocidal war against civilians, children and women,” they added.
Videos circulating on social networks and that have been collected by the Palestinian newspaper ‘Filastin’ show the launching of the packages from a plane and you can see how some of them suffer parachute failures, impacting the people who were waiting for them to arrive. to land to collect the contents.
Witnesses cited by the Palestinian news agency Maan previously mentioned that “The parachutes have broken in the air after the launches, which has caused the boxes to fall vertically.”
In recent weeks, several aid launches have been carried out by air, shipments in which the Air Forces of the United States, France, Jordan and Egypt, among other countries, have participated, to try to alleviate the crisis in the enclave as a result of the Israeli offensive after the attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas.
The United Nations and various non-governmental organizations have denounced the extensive restrictions imposed by Israel on the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, mired in a very serious humanitarian crisis due to the military offensive that has raised alarm bells about the risk of widespread famine. scale, especially given the collapse of the Gazan health system.
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