GAZA: Five people died and 10 were injured as a result of air aid being dropped on the al-Shati camp in the west of Gaza City.
Khader Al Zaanoun, a journalist on the scene, said he witnessed the aid packages falling from planes over the Al Shati camp Friday but cannot confirm which country was involved in dropping the aid.
Head of Emergency Care Department at Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, Muhammad Al-Sheikh, confirmed the death of five people in the incident.
According to Al-Sheikh, some of those injured in the incident and transferred to Al Shifa are in serious condition.
The United States and other countries are moving humanitarian aid into Gaza as the United Nations warns that hundreds of thousands of people in the besieged area are at risk of starvation.
The first US drop came on Saturday, delivering 38,000 meals along the Gaza coastline in a joint operation with Jordan.
After US President Joe Biden announced the plan last Friday, aid agencies criticized it as ineffective given the scale of needs in Gaza.
Aid workers are always complaining that airdrops are a good photo opportunity but a terrible way to send aid, said Richard Gowan, the UN’s executive director of the International Crisis Group.
According to media reports, Palestinians in northern Gaza are having trouble accessing aid recently transferred to them by the United States and Jordan because this aid does not include essential food.
