(CNN)–At least five people were killed, and 10 others were injured, on Friday, when aid packages fell on them by air in the Beach camp, west of Gaza City, according to what a journalist who witnessed the incident reported.
Khader Al-Zaanoun told the network CNNHe witnessed Aid packages fall from planes over Al-Shati campHowever, he cannot confirm which country was behind the airdrop (which caused the accident).
Muhammad Al-Sheikh, head of the emergency department at Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, confirmed that five people were killed in the accident.
Muhammad Al-Sheikh indicated that some of those injured in the accident, who were taken to Al-Shifa, are in serious condition.
For his part, a Jordanian source said on Friday that “the technical defect that caused some parachutes carrying aid to not open and to fall freely to the ground during the airdrop on Gaza on Friday was not caused by a Jordanian plane,” according to what was reported by the Jordanian government agency, Petra. “.
The source said, “The four Jordanian planes that carried out the landing operation in partnership with five countries took place without any glitch.”
The source explained that “Jordan is continuing its efforts to support the Palestinian brothers in Gaza, and to deliver aid via all means, land and air,” according to the Jordanian news agency.
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