Wanted to get relief supplies – Hamas: Twelve people drowned outside Gaza

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According to the Islamist Hamas, twelve Palestinians drowned in the sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip after aid was dropped from planes.

They had tried to reach packages that had fallen into the sea near a beach in the northern part of the coastal area, the media office of the Hamas-controlled government said on Tuesday.

The incident, which could not be independently verified, is believed to have occurred on Monday afternoon. Eyewitnesses said some of the drowned people could not swim, while others became entangled in the ropes that tied the packages together.

Aid deliveries arrive only very sparingly
In the northern Gaza Strip, the suffering of the civilian population has been particularly great during the Gaza war, which lasted more than five months. Aid deliveries arrive there only in sparse numbers by land, because Israel keeps border crossings in the north of the Gaza Strip closed. Within the coastal area, truck travel is very dangerous due to fighting and anarchic conditions.

Airlift alone is not enough
The US, Jordan and other countries have been dropping aid from military aircraft for more than a month. Germany also joined the initiative in mid-March. However, the aid organizations point out that such an airlift cannot replace the transport of relief goods over land. The war was sparked by the unprecedented massacre wrought on October 7 by terrorists from Hamas and other extremist Palestinian organizations in Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip.

Source: Krone

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