At least five people have died this Friday at Gaza Strip due to the fall of aid packages dropped by air due to failures in the parachutes attached to the shipments, according to Palestinian media, which suggest that several more people have been injured.

The Gazan authorities, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), have indicated in a statement that This type of aid delivery is “useless” and have demanded the opening of corridors on land to achieve the “immediate” entry of thousands of tons of aid to “avoid a famine.”

“The fall of aid packages has left five dead and several injured despite the fact that we have been warning that these operations are not ideal for delivering aid,” states the text, which warns that nearly 2.4 million people in Gaza Strip “continue to suffer from severe shortages of food, drinking water, medicine and shelter.”

Thus, the authorities have indicated that the “catastrophic famine has already caused the death of twenty peoplea figure that will continue to increase daily due to malnutrition and dehydration. “This endangers the lives of more than 700,000 Palestinian citizens who are suffering from extreme hunger at this point,” they indicated.

“We insist that these types of operations respond to propaganda rather than the idea of ​​delivering humanitarian aid, (…) and that what has happened we have already been warning. These launches pose a death threat to the citizens of the Gaza Stripand that is what happened today when the packages fell on the heads of the Palestinians,” they maintained.

The Gazan authorities have held the “US Administration, the international community and the Israeli occupation forces” responsible for these actions. “Israel perpetrates a genocidal war against civilians, children and women,” they added.

Videos circulating on social networks and that have been collected by the Palestinian newspaper ‘Filastin’ show the launching of the packages from a plane and you can see how Some of them suffer parachute failures, impacting the people who were waiting for them to reach the ground to collect the contents.

Witnesses quoted by the Palestinian news agency Maan have previously indicated that “the parachutes broke in the air after the launches, causing the boxes to fall vertically.”

In recent weeks, several aid launches have been carried out by air, shipments in which the Air Forces of the United States, France, Jordan and Egypt, among other countries, have participated, to try to alleviate the crisis in the enclave as a result of the Israeli offensive after the attacks carried out on October 7 by Hamas.

The United Nations and various non-governmental organizations have denounced the extensive restrictions imposed by Israel on the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza, mired in a very serious humanitarian crisis due to the military offensive that has raised alarm bells about the risk of widespread famine. scale, especially given the collapse of the Gazan health system.