Gaza: Hamas calls for an end to aid drops, an end to American refusal

2024-03-26T22:20:23.418Z

Highlights: Hamas calls for an end to humanitarian aid drops in the Gaza Strip. The Islamist movement, de facto authority in the Palestinian enclave, judges that these operations are dangerous for the population. According to him, 18 people have died accidentally in recent days due to these drops. The U.S. responded to this request, saying it is working tirelessly to increase the arrival of assistance humanitarian by land. The land route is considered the most efficient and safest by those in the humanitarian sector, says the White House.

Hamas calls for an end to humanitarian aid drops in the Gaza Strip. The Islamist movement, de facto authority in the Palestinian enclave, judges that these operations are dangerous for…

Gaza: Hamas calls for an end to aid drops, an end to American refusal

Hamas calls for an end to humanitarian aid drops in the Gaza Strip. The Islamist movement, de facto authority in the Palestinian enclave, judges that these operations are dangerous for the population. According to him, 18 people have died accidentally in recent days due to these drops.

Parachutes drop humanitarian aid over the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, March 26. Photograph taken from southern Israel. AP - Ariel Schalit

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It is in an attempt to respond to the urgency of a catastrophic humanitarian situation that several countries have initiated airdrops. Not enough trucks are authorized by

Israel

to enter the Palestinian enclave. And among those who pass, few can access the northern half of the enclave, where several hundred thousand Palestinians still live.

The air corridor opened by

Jordan

was intended to bypass some of the obstacles. But for Hamas, this way of delivering humanitarian aid is dangerous.

This Tuesday, the Islamist movement claimed that twelve people died drowned at sea while trying to recover pallets that had fallen offshore. Six others were killed in stampedes caused by airdrops.

Already at the beginning of the month, five people were killed when the parachute attached to a pallet failed to open and it crashed into an inhabited house.

This Tuesday, Hamas claimed to have “

always warned countries conducting airdrop operations of the danger

.” Following these new deaths, he asked them to cease these operations and wanted them to exert international pressure to force Israel to open road access more widely. The land route is considered the most efficient and safest by those in the humanitarian sector.

The

United States

responded to this request. These airdrops "

are one of the many ways we are using to deliver the aid that the Palestinians in

Gaza
so desperately need and we will continue to do so

", while "

working tirelessly to increase the arrival of assistance humanitarian by land

,” said a spokesperson for the White House National Security Council.

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Gaza: Hamas calls for an end to aid drops, an end to American refusal

Gaza: Hamas calls for an end to aid drops, an end to American refusal

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