Above the north of Gaza – from the sky, a besieged Gaza appeared briefly on Saturday early Saturday while the military plane opened its rear door and a mass of tents could be seen near the Mediterranean coast from a side window.
Then, boxes of formula for babies, food and other supplies have been pushed to the back and parachuted on the ground – a tiny fraction of what is necessary for the population of the enclave, which is faced with a crisis of hunger in a spiral – delivered by a method which, according to experts, is ineffective, dangerous and in certain deadly cases.
But with the international montage of the death of famine in Gaza under the restrictions of offensive and paralyzing help of Israel, several countries began to drop food, medicine and other supplies in Gaza from the sky.
“These help drops are wreaking havoc,” said Dr. Umar Burney, a Texas-based orthopedic surgeon in Gaza, in NBC News during a telephone interview on Saturday at Al-Ahli Baptist hospital in northern Gaza. Several explosions could be heard ringing nearby while he was talking.
Burney, who has been dealing with patients in Gaza since last week as part of a team with Medglobal, a non -profit organization based in Chicago who organizes voluntary medical missions at the enclave, added that he had taken care of “several patients who were crushed by this kind of unplanned heads”.
The flight of Saturday from an air base just outside the Jordanian capital, Amman took place one day after the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government had to face a wave of conviction of European leaders, the Arab nations and a group representing the families of the hostages after having announced its intention to take control of the city of Gaza in the north of the enclave.
The United Nations Secretary General António Guterres condemned the plan on Friday as a “dangerous escalation” which risks “deepening the already catastrophic consequences for millions of Palestinians”.
His colleague Volker Türk, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, also said in a statement that “the Israeli government should put all its efforts to save the life of Gaza civilians by authorizing the full flow and without hindrance of humanitarian aid.”
The deaths after doing Gaza were increasing after Israel launched a paralyzing blockade except for the entrance to food and other vital supplies in the enclave in early March before ending its ceasefire with Hamas.
He raised the blocking in May, allowing basic aid to Gaza, widely distributed in a new controversial distribution system led by the Gaza humanitarian foundation supported by the United States and Israel.
Since then, nearly 1,400 people have been killed and more than 4,000 injured in search of food, the United Nations Bureau for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in an update said on Tuesday. “At least 859 people have been killed around GHF sites since the start of GHF operations,” he added.
When he was asked on the growing death toll on NBC News on Wednesday, GHF said that the United Nations and other organizations in the past had often passed near these places and were regularly caught by large crowds.
The Israeli army said on Saturday in a statement that it allowed the GHF to “distribute aid to the residents of Gaza independently”. He said that after “incidents in which civilians have arrived in distribution facilities have been reported, in -depth examinations have been carried out” and that “systematic learning process” to improve the operational response are underway.
Faced with the global indignation of assembly, Israel began tactical breaks in certain parts of Gaza to allow more aid to the enclave at the end of last month. It also began to allow countries to pay versions in the territory, although the aid groups have criticized this delivery method.
“These aerial drops fall into extremely populated areas. They are dangerous,” Caroline Willemen, project coordinator in a clinic of borders (doctors Without Borders) on Saturday in Gaza City, in British Broadcaster Sky News. “They came across tents, people were injured,” she added.
Aid groups have also stressed that drops can only provide a fraction of what is necessary for the Gaza population of around 2 million people while the crisis of continuous spiral and a large part of the enclave plunges into famine conditions.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director general of the World Health Organization, told journalists on Thursday that at least 99 people, including 29 children under the age of 5, died of malnutrition this year. These figures were probably underestimated, he said, and The Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza cites higher figures.
On Friday, the ministry said that hospitals had recorded four deaths “due to famine and malnutrition” within 24 hours, including two children. This brought the total number of famine deaths to 201, including 98 children.
Israel has maintained that there is no famine in Gaza and that the field situation is exaggerated, almost 22 months after launching its offensive following October 7 of Hamas, the attacks in which some 1,200 people were killed and around 250 hostages, marking a major climbing in a conflict of deaders.
Since then, more than 61,000 people have been killed in Gaza, including thousands of children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the enclave, while a large part of the territory has been destroyed.
Foreign journalists have been forbidden to enter independently since Israel launched its offensive. Traveling on help flights has become one of the rare ways of witnessing the destruction of the territory of first -hand.
