At least 18 Palestinians die while collecting air aid in northern Gaza

At least 18 Palestinians were killed in northern Gaza strip in the last few hours when dozens of “hungry” people entered the sea to collect packages of humanitarian help thrown from the air.

Twelve of them drowned and six suffocated in the stampedeinformed the Ministry of Health of the Strip, controlled by Hamas.

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“Aerial delivery of aid has become a real danger for the lives of hungry citizens“, denounced.

This is not the first time that dropping packages by air has claimed the lives of Gaza civilianssince on March 4th five civilians died and several were injured due to the impact of pallets of humanitarian help after the parachutes failed to open in the city of Link.

Faced with this situation, the Palestinian authorities call for an end to this type of operations “useless, offensive and inappropriate” and asks Israel to open “immediately” the rest of the land border crossings – there are five closed – to alleviate the “severe” food shortages suffered by civilians in northern Link for the sixth consecutive month.

Israelin turn, insists that the problem of humanitarian help will not be solved by opening more border crossings and blames the UN of not distributing packages that enter through the two land crossings active since the beginning of the war: Kerem Shalomon Israeli territory, and Rafain the border Egypt.

And although Israel has in recent weeks allowed trains to enter on two occasions via a new route that goes directly to the north of the Rangethis Monday prevented the entry of trains from United Nations Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA in English), whom he accuses of having links with the group of Hamas.

The humanitarian aid airdrop was put on the table a few weeks ago by the international community, including Jordan, France, Egypt or the United Statesas an alternative to bringing more aid to the north of Range where 300,000 inhabitants of Gaza They are exposed to hunger.

“We take full responsibility American administrationthe international community and the Israeli occupation for the continuation of these combined crimes, which the world has failed to stop“, criticizes the Gaza ministry in its statement.

At least 23 boys and girls died of dehydration and malnutrition in northern Gaza Strip, according to the Fund United Nations for kids (UNICEF).

Source: Elcomercio

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