During an assistance drop in Gaza, a parachute malfunctions, leaving five people dead and others wounded

Tel Aviv: According to Al Jazeera, a pallet fell into a crowd of people waiting for food north of Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp on Friday after the parachute on a humanitarian airdrop failed to deploy, killing five people and wounding a number more.

After the incident on Friday, the media office for the Gaza administration confirmed the number of casualties, criticizing the “useless” airdrops as “flashy propaganda rather than humanitarian service” and arguing in favor of food being able to cross land borders.

“We previously warned that it poses a threat to the lives of citizens in the Gaza Strip, and this is what happened today when the parcels fell on the citizens’ heads,” the organization stated in a statement.
At least 500,000 people in Gaza, or one in four of the population, were afraid of starvation, according to a study released last month by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
A famine was raging in the enclave at the time of the deaths. It raised awareness of how hard it is to get much-needed humanitarian assistance into Gaza despite Israeli restrictions. According to Al Jazeera, the largest UN agency in Gaza, UNRWA, asserts that Israeli authorities have prohibited them from delivering supplies to the northern portion of the strip since January 23.
According to the World Food Programme, on Tuesday, the military ordered its first northbound convoy in the previous two weeks to turn around.
Delivery has been halted in Gaza by the organization owing to security concerns. Consequently, a number of countries—including Egypt, the US, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates—have conducted airdrops.
Relief groups, however, have attacked these initiatives as costly and ineffective means of supplying food and medical supplies.
A widespread famine in the Gaza Strip is “almost inevitable,” the UN claims, if nothing is done.
Food shortages in the enclave, which has been under Israeli siege and assault since October 7, are attributed by aid agencies to military operations, instability, and major obstacles to the transit of essential supplies, Al Jazeera reports.
Over 30,000 Palestinians have perished in the Gaza Strip during the five-month battle, according to health authorities there.
There are going to be historic hearings by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the legitimacy of Israel’s 57-year occupation of Palestinian areas. The Hague has scheduled a week of hearings that align with Israel’s current military onslaught in Gaza, which has claimed nearly 29,000 Palestinian lives since October 7, according to Al Jazeera.
As opposed to South Africa’s genocide case against Israel for alleged crimes in the ongoing war, the hearings before the International Court of Justice center on Israel’s possession of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem since 1967.
According to Al Jazeera, the Palestinians claim that the occupation violates three essential tenets of international law and that they should be allowed to establish an independent state there.
Israel vehemently denies carrying out a genocide in Gaza. Nonetheless, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decided in January that it was competent to consider South Africa’s lawsuit against Israel, which accuses the latter of violating the Genocide Convention.
The justices did not put a halt to the military onslaught that has decimated the Palestinian enclave, but they did urge Israel to take all reasonable precautions to avoid death, damage, and crimes of genocide in Gaza.