Humanitarian aid fell into the sea, 12 people died trying to reach it, Hamas reports. He wants a change

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A video showing the aid being dropped on the ground shows crowds of people running towards the beach in the northern Gaza city of Beit Lahiya as crates fitted with parachutes sink, the agency said . Later footage shows people standing in deep water followed by bodies being dragged onto the sand, the agency added.

“He swam to get food for his children and became a martyr,” quoted one of the men filmed standing on the beach as saying. “They should deliver aid through (land) crossings. Why are they doing this to us?” he added.

The first US planes dropped humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip in early March, Jordan had already started doing so earlier. The British Air Force also joined in on Monday.

#UPDATE Hamas called for an end to aid airdrops into Gaza Tuesday after it said 12 people drowned and six were killed in stampedes trying to reach the food packages.

“We call for an immediate end to airdrop operations… and we demand the immediate and rapid opening of land… pic.twitter.com/00oblngG0U

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On Tuesday, Hamas called for an end to airdrops of humanitarian aid, saying that in addition to the twelve who drowned, six others were trampled. “We demand the immediate and speedy opening of the land crossings so that humanitarian aid can reach our Palestinian people,” the agency quoted from the announcement of the Palestinian terrorist movement AFP.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on Israel to “commit” to unrestricted aid access to the Gaza Strip, calling the number of trucks parked at the border a cause for “moral outrage”. However, Israel claims that it does not limit the amount of humanitarian aid flowing into Gaza and blames the problems with the distribution of aid on the UN agency, reported.

Israel launched a military offensive in the Gaza Strip with the aim of completely destroying Hamas after a terrorist attack on October 7, when militants of Hamas and its allies killed almost 1,200 people on the Israeli border and dragged another 250 or so people into Palestinian territory.

In the first and so far only ceasefire at the end of November, less than half of the hostages were released. According to data from the Ministry of Health in Gaza, over 32,000 Palestinians have died in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war. Hamas does not distinguish between killed civilians and militants.