Palie's response:
Posted on 03/08/2024 9:24:12 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
A pallet of humanitarian aid airdropped into Gaza on Friday morning killed five people and injured ten more, according to reports.
Witnesses told the Guardian that the accident happened near the coastal refugee camp al-Shati after a parachute attached to the pallet failed to deploy properly and fell on a group of men, teenagers, and children waiting for aid.
“Then, all of a sudden, the parachute didn’t open and fell down like a rocket on the roof of one of the houses,” witness Mohammed al-Ghoul told the newspaper. “Ten minutes later I saw people transferring three martyrs and others injured, who were staying on the roof of the house where the aid packages fell.”
According to a video obtained by CNN of the malfunction, the pallet can be seen falling at a high speed, with bags coming apart “in a shower of debris, and later seen and heard impacting the ground with audible loud thuds.”
Muhammad Al-Sheikh, Head of Emergency Care Department at Al Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, said those injured are in serious condition.
The government media office in Gaza called the airdrops “useless” and “flashy propaganda rather than a humanitarian service,” according to Al-Jazeera.
It is not yet clear who the aid was from. Multiple countries, including the U.S., are conducting airdrops of aid in Gaza. According to CBS News, the U.S., Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands, and Belgium dropped aid over Gaza on Friday.
Friday’s accident came a day after President Joe Biden announced the U.S. military would build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza to deliver more aid amid warnings of a coming famine and as the president faces political fallout from Muslim Americans and young progressives at home over the Israel-Hamas War.
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Enemy combatants, so no loss. The big problem is why are we resupplying HAMAS?
We need a lot more of these.
“Gilligan!!” bellowed The Skipper.
Whump!!
I ain't got it."
Brophy from High Anxiety (1977)
That’s all I could think of when I saw the news videos.
Martyrs? Really loose definition of the term, there. There was no battle, no shooting, no fighting at all, just people waiting for a free lunch. If I slip on a bar of soap in a shower in Rafah, do I become a martyr?
No matter whose plane it was, the IDF will get the blame, of course. No wonder the death toll is so high in Gaza.
With allah as my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
/s
You’re not supposed to use “assault” pallets to drop cartons of Preparation H and drum of KY jelly.
Kill ‘em with kindness. Whatever. So long as they end up dead.
Only an idiot would get in
front of a ton of
whatever is coming in
for a landing.
Spent nine years on a
hot air balloon crew.
Rule 1....never get in
front of the gondola
when she’s coming in
hot.
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
Meatball bombers I guess
Yesterday on Bannons War Room show I think it was Tommy Tubberville from Alabama said that most likely Biden will be bringing in hundred of thousand Palestinians into the US. He will get the backing of these pro Palestine young college kids etc. Expect it to be kinda like what happened in Minnesota with the Somalians. Plop, just one day a hoard shows up and next thing you get are a bunch of Omar’s.
Yeah.
Right.
Uh-huh.
Sorry, I tend not to believe much that comes from the Palis in Gaza...
Use remote-controlled balloons to deliver.
This wasn’t unusual during the Clinton administration where we were getting a new operation kicked off every other day.
More than a few Somali’s were crushed by air drops.
Sounds like a better and cheaper service to the IDF.
That little strip of land is the same size as Las Vegas but they've taken 5 months and the end isn't in sight.
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