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Friday, March 8, 2024
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Friday, March 8, 2024
Gaza hospital medic confirms US aid airdrop killed five
A general view taken from the Israeli side of the border shows aid parcels being airdropped over the northern Gaza Strip on March 5, 2024. (Nicolas GARCIA / AFP)
A medic at Gaza’s largest hospital says a humanitarian airdrop in the north of the Palestinian territory killed five people and wounded 10.
The casualties were taken to Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital after the parachutes holding the aid didn’t open properly, causing some of the packages to land on civilians at high speeds, the emergency room’s head nurse, Mohammed al-Sheikh, tells AFP.
Shocking…
Documentation by my colleague [@Hakeam_ps] reveals that an airdrop mission was done in a wrong way. A number of Palestinians (5) including 2 children were killed as the airdrop fell on their heads.
Parachutes didn’t open & descended very quickly over them pic.twitter.com/tV9SP3Tit0
— Younis Tirawi | يونس (@ytirawi) March 8, 2024
