As famine stalks enclave, aid workarounds criticised as a distraction from Israel’s blocking of aid through land routes. Five people were killed and several injured after a parachute landing a humanitarian airdrop failed to open, bringing a pallet crashing down into a crowd of people waiting for food north of Gaza City’s Shati refugee camp. Reporting from Rafah, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud said that people are experiencing “a tragedy” in the north of Gaza. It highlighted the problem of getting desperately needed humanitarian relief into Gaza amid Israeli restrictions. Road routes are the only way to bring in the large quantities of food desperately needed to avert #famine.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 08, 2024 18:24 UTC