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Airdrops resume - Gaza City

Original Social Media Post

"Amid the worsening famine and the death of dozens of children and adults, aircraft are dropping boxes of aid to civilians in northern Gaza. However, this method of delivery is often ineffective — and in many cases, deadly — as falling aid packages have caused injuries and deaths among the very people they aim to help. في ظل استفحال المجاعة ووفاة العشرات من الأطفال والكبار، تقوم الطائرات بإلقاء صناديق من المساعدات على المواطنين في شمال غزة. إلا أن هذه الطريقة في إيصال المساعدات غير مجدية في كثير من الأحيان، بل وقاتلة، حيث تسببت الصناديق الساقطة بإصابة ومقتل عدد من المواطنين الذين من المفترض أن تصلهم المساعدات." - Source

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Event Notes

Israel violates its own "humanitarian pause"

Around 10:30 pm, the IDF's official social media accounts announced its plan to enact a "humanitarian pauses" across humanitarian zones in Gaza to "improve the humanitarian response in Gaza" by carrying out aerial airdrops of aid, while also explicitly denying in the same post any claims of starvation in Gaza.

Israel's first airdrop was carried out late night, fell on top of tents and injured around 11 people.

At 8:40 am the next morning, the IDF published a map laying out supposedly safe areas where its "tactical pause in military activity will take place for humanitarian purposes from 10:00 to 20:00" starting Sunday.

In total contrast to these official announcements, the IDF continued bombing and shooting civilians across the Gaza Strip including in the areas that are supposed to be safe, namely Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah, and Gaza City.

Israel killed at least 20 aid seekers on Sunday, while simultaneously not restricting the flow of aid through land crossings. Not a single truck entered from the south, whereas no more than 10 entered from the north, where 7 aid seekers were killed.

Israel also killed at least 16 people in areas inside its so-called “humanitarian pause” zone.

List of Israeli attacks on aid seekers:

  • GHF Netzarim / Wadi Gaza: 13 killed, including 4 children and a woman -▪️North: aid seekers massacred at the Zikim Crossing: 7 killed including at least one child

List of Israeli massacres of people inside supposedly safe zones: -▪️Al-Mawasi: 7 killed

  • Deir al-Balah: 4 killed in a tent strike
  • Al-Rimal: 5 killed, a mother and her four children

The details for each video come from social media. None of it has been verified.