Air aid kills 3-year-old Palestinians in Gaza-family complains

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Von: WOM

A 3-year-old Palestinian boy was killed in the southern city of Khan Younis by a dropped aid package on Saturday, his relatives report. The humanitarian crisis, caused by the Israeli attack Gazastreifen .

The tragic fate of little Sami

According to Sami Ayyad, the boy's grandfather, the family had breakfast, as pallets from aircraft were thrown off and fell towards the refugee camp. Several family members were looking for protection in their improvised tents, but the falling package killed Sami immediately. "I was sitting here with the boy, and the moment I left him ... the package fell on him," recalled Ayyad. "There was only a second between us. I took it and started running."

despair in the middle of the crisis

"We have no hospitals. I ran like crazy, but the boy died immediately. I couldn't save him. Blood came out of his nose and mouth," he added. CNN recordings from the immediate consequence of the incident show bloody spots on the floor, while Ayyad points to the place where his grandson was killed. Family members gather in the refugee camp, their eyes full of tears. Women, men and children go around a thin tarpaulin between a sea from tents.

auxiliary measures and the call for dignity

Several countries, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, have thrown relief supplies into the Gaza Strip. "We don't want help. We would want to," said Ayyad. "Enough with the humiliation and the insults that we learn from the Arabs and not just from the Israelis. They show no pity with us - look at our children, our women, our old ones."

the reality in Khan Younis

The uncle of Sami, Mahmoud Ayyad, described life in this region as "humiliation, death, horror". He added: "I don't fall asleep at night whether I will wake up tomorrow. We are people and not animals that are provided with food from above." According to the Israeli authorities, 81 food packages were dropped by the United Arab Emirates in Khan Younis on Saturday. A total of more than 10,000 packages have been thrown in in the past few months.

a direct call to humanitarian support

The persistent Israeli restrictions on humanitarian aid have severely affected the supply of vital goods. This has exposed the entire population of over 2.2 million people to the risk of famine, as a report by the UN. Around 1.84 million Palestinians suffer from acute lack of food, as the report on the integrated classification of nutritional uncertainty on Thursday.

The consequences of the military approach

The international community condemned the air drops as an inefficient method to help the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Instead, human rights organizations require the Israeli authorities to loosen the controls at the land crossings into the enclave. The military offensive of Israel in the Gaza Strip has devastated entire district, wiped out families and triggered a difficult famine, displacement and illness crisis. According to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, at least 42,603 ​​Palestinians have been killed and 99,795 have been injured since the start of the conflict on October 7th.

an unimaginable fate

The Israeli offensive began after the militant group of Hamas, which ruled the Gaza Strip, had attacked South Israel. At least 1,200 people were killed and more than 250 others kidnapped, according to the Israeli authorities. Sami and his relatives had been in Khan Younis after repeated displacements by the Israeli military campaign. "I don't want help. My son is dead. He stood there and told me that I should look at the parachutes. He ran away when he saw that they were getting closer," reported his father Mahmoud. "There was an air raid here and he survived. But his fate was to die from a parachute."

This tragic incident reminds us of the devastating effects of armed conflicts on the lives of innocent civilians and the urgent need for humanitarian aid and political change in the region.