5 people killed in Gaza as aid package parachute fails to deploy, officials and witness say
5 people killed in Gaza as aid package parachute fails to deploy, officials and witness say
The U.S., Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium dropped aid over Gaza in an attempt to get supplies, including desperately needed food, to residents.
This would be embarrassing if nobody died. 5 people died for this stupid US publicity stunt while hundreds of thousands of meals are sitting on the border with Gaza. That's the leader of the free world.
28In the meantime, I wonder how many weapons they delivered to Israel. What a joke/genocide.
18This wasn’t the result of US airdrops. Might want to read the article
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Hopefully the pier is done soon so they can start
exploiting oil and gas reservesdelivering aid safely.14Genocide going well
11US kills even in the very rare cases when it don't want to.
5"We are aware of reports of civilians killed as a result of humanitarian airdrops," CENTCOM said. "We express sympathies to the families of those who were killed. Contrary to some reports, this was not the result of U.S. airdrops."
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Killing them with kindness.
4This is the best summary I could come up with:
Officials from Gaza's Hamas-run Ministry of Health and an eye witness told CBS News that five people were killed Friday by an aid airdrop package when at least one parachute failed to properly deploy and a parcel fell on them.
The U.S., Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium dropped aid over Gaza Friday in an attempt to get supplies, including desperately needed food, to residents amid an ever-worsening humanitarian crisis there.
A U.S. defense official told CBS News an initial review indicated the U.S. airdrop was not responsible for the fatalities on the ground, but said that further investigation was required.
Video posted on social media showed a large cluster of aid parcels suspended from parachutes drifting through the sky but appearing to get tangled before one, with its chute deployed but not fully opened, drops much more quickly than the rest.
"All those concerned about the situation in Gaza should put pressure on Israeli government to grant unimpeded humanitarian land access & not blocking convoys," the European Union's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said Thursday, calling the airdrops "good but insufficient."
Two U.S. officials told CBS News the current plan is for the pier to be installed by the U.S. Army's 7th Transportation Brigade, based at Ft. Story, Virginia.
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3Wow that's terrible. Probably would've been a good idea to stay clear of the drop area, I wonder why they didn't do that.
-10It seems the pallet went through the building they were in, in a residential area of a refugee camp. They probably didn't even see it
13Ah never mind then.
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Are you being sarcastic or serious? hard to tell!
7I'm being serious. I don't see why they couldn't have waited under cover for a few minutes until the packages had landed.
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Maybe because people are starving there?
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