A tragedy occurred when a 3-year-old child staying in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Palestine, was struck by debris and died on the spot while looking up at relief supplies falling from the sky.
According to CNN on the 22nd (local time), Palestinian boy Sami Ayad (3) died after being hit by a wooden plank used to transport relief supplies that fell at the refugee camp in Khan Yunis, southern Gaza Strip, on the 19th. Ayad’s aunt and cousins were also injured by the relief supplies that fell that day.
Ayad’s grandfather said the family was eating breakfast when relief supplies arrived. He was sitting with his grandchild, and while he was away for a moment, a lump of relief supplies fell on him. “There was only a fleeting moment between him and me. “I picked him up and started running,” he said.
He said, “We don’t have a hospital. I ran like crazy to get help, but the child died soon after. “I couldn’t save him, and his nose and mouth started bleeding,” he explained.
Ayad’s father said: “Ayad was standing there saying to me, ‘Look at the parachutes,’ when he saw parachutes falling from the sky. “Afterwards, my son saw the parachute approaching and ran away,” he said.
CNN reported that there were blood stains at the scene where Ayad died. The family and relatives who suddenly lost their 3-year-old child, who survived the war that lasted for over a year, gathered at the spot where he died and could not hide their sadness and anger.
They claimed that the international community’s desperate airdrop operation to relieve the food crisis in the Gaza Strip cost Ayad’s life and was depriving the residents of their human dignity. “We don’t want aid,” Ayad’s grandfather said. “I want dignity,” he said. “The insults and shame I receive not only from Israel but also from Arab countries are enough.”
Ayad’s uncle also said, “Our life is nothing but shame, death and fear. “I go to sleep every day without knowing if I will wake up the next day,” he said, emphasizing, “We are humans, not animals that need food falling from the sky.”
According to Israeli authorities, on the day Ayad died, an airplane from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) dropped 81 food packages from the air on Khan Yunis, and wooden boxes of relief supplies marked with the UAE flag were found at the refugee camp where Ayad died.
Some countries, including the United States, the UAE, and the United Kingdom, have been carrying out operations to drop food and other relief goods from the air into the Gaza Strip since early this year. According to the Civilian Assistance Organization (COGAT), Israel’s civilian affairs organization for Palestinians, more than 10,000 pieces of aid have been airdropped to the Gaza Strip in recent months.
However, the amount of food brought in through these airdrops is extremely limited, and as tragic accidents such as Ayad’s death continue to occur, questions are being raised about their appropriateness.
According to CNN, at least five people were killed and 10 injured last March after being hit by relief supplies dropped at a refugee camp in Gaza City.
Human rights groups are of the position that in order to resolve the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip, the land-based relief supply channel currently controlled by the Israeli military must be opened.
“It is a tragic irony that a three-year-old boy, who survived Israel’s military attack for more than a year, died after being hit by food falling from the air,” said Fiqr Shalut, director of the non-governmental organization (NGO) Medical Aid for Palestinians. .
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