“RWe reiterate that airdrop operations create a real danger to people’s lives and do not constitute a solution to alleviate the food crisis in the north of the Gaza Strip,” Salama Marouf, head of the press relations office, said in a press release. of the Government of the Gaza Strip.
According to the statement, a package fell into an unspecified warehouse and caused the roof to fall on people waiting for help, causing two deaths and four injuries.
To compensate for the lack of aid delivered by land, due to the blockade that Israel has placed on the Gaza Strip since the start of the war with Hamas more than seven months ago, the international community began sending aid through airdrops with parachutes. .
At the end of March, Hamas authorities reported 18 deaths and demanded that these operations “cease immediately”, in addition to the opening of land crossing points.
Among those killed as a result of airdrops, 12 drowned while trying to recover food that fell into the sea and six died in stampedes.
In early March, witnesses and hospital sources also stated that five people had died and ten were injured when parachutes with aid packages failed to open.
The humanitarian situation in the territory deteriorated further after Israel closed the Kerem Shalom crossing point, in the south of the Gaza Strip, on Sunday, following rocket fire blamed on Hamas that killed four Israeli soldiers and injured around of ten.
The Israeli Army also closed the Rafah crossing point with Egypt on Tuesday morning, through which the fuel necessary for the operation of hospitals and humanitarian logistics normally passes.
The army indicated it had reopened Kerem Shalom on Wednesday, but the UN and humanitarian organizations lamented the next day that “virtually no aid has entered the Gaza Strip” over the past two days.
Aid workers believe that neither the airdrops nor the artificial port that the United States has just completed will allow sufficient aid to be delivered to the territory.
UNICEF warned today, for its part, that fuel reserves in the Gaza Strip are for days or even hours.
In a statement, the organization stressed that the activity of UNICEF and its partners requires fuel to transport essential products and workers to help families, and Israeli operations in the Rafah region and the closure of border crossings threaten to paralyze the humanitarian effort and lead to loss of lives.
The current conflict was triggered by a Hamas attack on October 7, which caused almost 1,200 deaths, with Israel responding with an offensive that caused more than 34,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip, according to reports from both parties.
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