A humanitarian parachute drop in the Gaza Strip on Friday went wrong, killing five Palestinians and injuring 10 others.
The aid cargo’s parachute failed to open when it was dropped north of the Shati refugee camp on the Gaza Strip coast, said Mohammed al-Sheikh, chief of the emergency medicine department at Shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
The eyewitness said that he and his brother followed the parachuted aid, hoping to get a “bag of flour”. “Then suddenly the parachute didn’t open and fell like a rocket,” hitting a house, the eyewitness said.
The Jordanian army and a US defense official denied that the cargo had been dropped from an aircraft from either country.
The US and Jordan are airdropping humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip in partnership with Belgium, Egypt, France and the Netherlands.
2024-03-09 20:14:24
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