At least 5 folks have been killed and 10 others injured when airdropped help packages fell on them within the Al Shati camp west of Gaza City, based on Hamas-run Ministry of Health.
Footages posted on social media confirmed a big cluster of help parcels suspended from parachutes drifting by way of the sky however showing to get tangled earlier than one, with its chute deployed however not totally opened, dropped way more rapidly than the remainder.
The folks have been within the Al-Shati refugee camp in northern Gaza, and the incident occurred at round 11:30 a.m. native time.
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The U.S., Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium dropped help over Gaza on Friday in an try and get provides, together with desperately wanted meals, to residents amid an ever-worsening humanitarian disaster there.
United States Air Force drops humanitarian help to Palestinians within the Gaza Strip, Saturday, March 9, 2024.
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The US Central Command (CENTCOM) denied in a press release that the fatalities weren’t attributable to U.S. airdrops.
“We are aware of reports of civilians killed as a result of humanitarian airdrops. We express sympathies to the families of those who were killed. Contrary to some reports, this was not the result of U.S. airdrops,” CENTCOM mentioned.
