Package ‘fell down like a rocket’ on roof of house near al-Shati refugee camp where people were waiting, a witness says
Witnesses said the accident happened on Friday morning near the coastal refugee camp known as al-Shati, one of the most devastated parts of Gaza, after a parachute attached to the pallet failed to deploy properly and the parcel fell on a group of men, teenagers and younger children hoping to obtain food and other supplies.
A witness from the camp said he and his brother had followed the parachuted aid in the hope of getting “a bag of flour”. Referring to the five people killed on Friday, the government media office in Hamas-run Gaza said airdrops were “futile” and “not the best way for aid to enter”. “Any effort to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza is very welcome,” said Juliette Touma, the communications director at the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. “However, there is a much easier and more efficient way to respond to people’s desperate needs. This is through more consistent humanitarian deliveries via the road through the crossing points that connect Gaza with Israel.
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