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Five countries complete 90 aid airdrops aid over Gaza, far less than what’s needed
France, Germany, Jordan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have dropped another 90 aid packages over Gaza from aircraft after coordinating with the Israeli military.
As the UN and international aid organisations continue to be sidelined from delivering aid to Palestinians by Israel, the Israeli army claimed in a short statement that the air drops are part of its “series of actions to improve the humanitarian response in the Gaza Strip”.
The UN, major international humanitarian NGOs and Palestinians themselves say that aid airdrops are ineffective, dangerous and humiliating for starving people.
Several people have been injured by aid parcels falling from the sky already since this new round of airdrops began, and, earlier this week, we brought you testimony from a Palestinian journalist who said that people were forced to pick through rice mixed with sand after it was airdropped on the ground.
Israeli troops attack Gaza aid seekers in deadly shooting
Emergency rescue workers tell our colleagues on the ground that at least eight people attempting to receive aid were shot by Israeli forces, who opened fire on a crowd of starving Palestinians in north Gaza.
These eight will be added to the toll of 27 other aid seekers killed by Israeli forces today.
Witnesses describe Israeli forces killing, injuring aid seekers at GHF sites
At a GHF distribution site near the Netzarim Corridor in central Gaza, aid seeker Yahia Youssef described chaotic scenes. After helping to carry three people wounded by gunshots, he said he saw others on the ground, bleeding.
“It’s the same daily episode,” Youssef said.
Health workers said at least eight people were killed in the incident. Israel’s military said it fired warning shots at a gathering approaching its forces.
At least two people were killed in the Shakoush area, hundreds of metres (yards) from where the GHF operates another site in the southernmost city of Rafah, witnesses said.
Nasser Hospital in nearby Khan Younis received two bodies and many wounded.
Witness Mohammed Abu Taha said Israeli troops opened fire on the crowds. He saw three people – two men and a woman – shot as he fled.
People mourn over the body of a young Palestinian killed while trying to reach trucks carrying humanitarian aid en route to Gaza City
