Europe 1 with AFP 8:17 p.m., March 8, 2024
Five people were killed on Friday and ten others injured by the fall of humanitarian aid packages dropped by planes on Gaza City, we learned from a hospital source.
The victims were treated at al-Chifa hospital in Gaza, Mohammed al-Chiekh, head nurse in the emergency department of this establishment, told AFP, who specified that the accident had occurred. took place in the al-Shati refugee camp, west of Gaza City.
“When the planes started dropping the cargo, me and my brother went to the area in the hope of recovering a bag of flour,” said Mohammed al-Ghoul, a 50-year-old man living in this camp located near the sea.
“The parachute did not open and the cargo fell”
“But the parachute did not open and the cargo fell like a rocket on the roof of one of the houses,” he explained, indicating that he then saw people carrying three bodies and saw injured people among the people who had gathered on the roof of the building to try to get help.
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