Hamas asks to stop dropping humanitarian aid in Gaza because 18 people have died

Her government announced the death of 18 people, 12 of whom drowned at sea, in their attempt to collect supplies that had thrown planes into the war-ravaged Hamas called for “an immediate stop to air aid operations” and for ‘fast’ ground access points for humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip. In addition to the 12 people drowned yesterday, Monday, six people died as they were trampled into incidents also linked to parachute humanitarian aid throws, the Hamas government’s press office announced. Among these, some were injured and transferred to three Gaza City hospitals (northern), where they ended up this morning or before dawn, the director of the government’s press office in Gaza, Ismail al-Sawarka, told the French Agency, adding that several of the victims were young people, even children. “We’ve always warned the countries that conduct air drop operations for the death that is in the wrong process, because part of this aid falls to the sea, part falls to the occupied Palestinian territories and part ends up in dangerous zones, putting the lives of starving civilians at extreme risk,” the announcement said. Military aircraft have been throwing pallets with humanitarian aid for several weeks, with the support of countries such as the United Kingdom, France, the US, Egypt and Jordan. On 8 March, five people were killed and ten injured when planes dropped cargo with humanitarian aid in Gaza City. At the same time, the voices calling for Israel to open more passages towards the Gaza Strip, which it is besieging. According to the United Nations, before the war, at least 500 trucks entered there daily, while today about 150.