Five people died this Friday and 10 others were injured after being hit by humanitarian aid packages dropped by planes on Gaza Cityaccording to hospital sources.
The victims were treated at the Al Chifa hospital in Gaza, as confirmed by Mohammed al Chiekh, head nurse of the emergency service of this facility, who stated that the accident occurred in the Al Shati refugee camp, west of city of Gaza.
“When the planes started unloading cargo, my brother and I went to the area hoping to get a bag of flour,” said Mohammed al-Ghoul, a 50-year-old man who lives in this camp near the sea.
«But The parachute did not open and the cargo fell like a rocket on the roof of one of the houses,» he explained, indicating that he then saw people carrying three bodies and saw injured people among the people who had gathered on the roof seeking help.
For several days the United States and other countries, such as Jordan and France, have been carrying out air shipments of food aid to the Israeli-besieged Gaza Strip, mired in a serious humanitarian crisis and threatened with famine, according to the United Nations. .
«Israel exploits Palestinian hunger»
On the other hand, the UN rapporteur on the right to food, Michele FakhriHe denounced that Israel is exploiting the control it has over the entry of food into Gaza to gain advantages in negotiations with Hamas and «intentionally» pushing the entire civilian population towards famine for this purpose.
«It must be made clear that Israel is intentionally starving the Palestinian people of Gaza and that famine is already underway or just around the corner. Never In modern history we have seen it all civilian population switch to one complete the hunger situation so quickly«he declared at the press conference.
The speaker stated that «Israel demands concessions from Hamas and offers to allow entry of 500 trucks with humanitarian aid per day (the same amount as before the war), 200,000 tents and 60,000 caravans, the rehabilitation of bakeries and hospitals, but this is actually something that Israel is obliged to do under international law.»
He also argued that no Palestinian in the Gaza Strip eats enough and that at least half a million people already suffer from hunger.
Among these victims there are 335,000 young children with a high risk of severe malnutrition, while 90% of minors suffer from infectious diseases and 70% from diarrhea, said Fakhri, who denounced this situation before the United Nations Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva.
«Israel did it destroyed the entire food system of Gaza, poisoned the soil and wiped out 80% of the fishing sector, including small boats and related equipment. It has not allowed fishing since October 7 without explaining how simple artisanal fishermen could threaten it,» he underlined.
Fakhri, a Canadian jurist and academic, said that the United States and the European Union are rushing to open a humanitarian maritime corridor from the island of Cyprus to Gaza, while maintaining their political support for Israel and Washington continuing to supply it with weapons to continue bombing Palestinians.
«I am trying to understand why the United States provides bombs, ammunition and financial support to a government that has declared its intention to starve civilians. This is more than an alliance, it is a marriage,» he lamented in a meeting with members of the United Nations Correspondents Association in Geneva.
The speaker mentioned this during his speech 17 years of blockade over Gaza, Israel it allowed the entry of 500 trucks per day which contained supplies calculated «to cover the minimum calories per capita of the international population and not draw the attention of the international community to the situation».
