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‘Death at any moment’: fights break out as Gazans compete over airdropped aid
(www.theguardian.com)
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Yousef Abu Rabee, a strawberry farmer in northern Gaza before the conflict, said he had given up trying to reach aid drops to provide for his family after being shot at by unidentified armed men during a recent chaotic struggle around one parachuted pallet of assistance.
Earlier last month, five were killed near the coastal refugee camp known as al-Shati, one of the most devastated parts of Gaza, after a parachute failed to deploy properly and aid fell on a group of waiting men, teenagers and younger children.
On 25 March, the UK parachuted more than 10 tonnes of aid, including water, rice, cooking oil, flour, tinned goods and baby formula, to civilians along Gaza’s northern coastline, the Ministry of Defence in London said.
Critics say the airdrops by the UK, US, France, Spain, Jordan and other countries are “inefficient, dangerous and expensive” and primarily aimed at diverting public anger as international powers fail to convince Israel to allow more aid to reach Gaza.
Rabee said he had fled his home in the town of Beit Lahia, in northern Gaza, in the first days of Israel’s offensive, which has so far killed 33,000, mostly women and children, according to officials from the Hamas-run health ministry.
Jalal Muhammad Harb Warsh Agha, a 51-year-old livestock trader, now in Rafah, said the airdrops had “led to the outbreak of many troubles with fighting and crimes among the citizens there, through which I lost one of my relatives”.
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