BIDEN'S PUBLIC RELATIONS STUNT BACKFIRES: Aid Drop Kills at Least 5 in Gaza City
U.S. President Joe Biden's air-drop scheme had no intention of saving Gazans, it was employed to deflect attention from his complete support of Israel's genocide
A “humanitarian aid drop,” designed only to take attention off of U.S. President Joe Biden’s full support of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, resulted in at least five killed by one of the deliveries when a parachute malfunctioned.
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Khader Al Zaanoun, a journalist in Gaza City, told CNN that “he witnessed the aid packages falling from planes over the Al Shati camp on Friday but cannot confirm which nation was behind the airdrop.”
The Trends Journal reached out to the State Department for comment.
An eyewitness told Al-Jazeera that Palestinians were waiting for the drops near the al-Fayrouz Towers area when they noticed some of the packages were coming in fast.
“One of the packages fell atop the site, causing it to collapse, killing and wounding people inside. I rushed to help the people inside when I realized my cousin was among them. He is now dead.”
The Biden administration is afraid to get Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow aid trucks into the starved enclave, and Israel is punishing Palestinians with a starvation campaign.
The UN said last week that just a small percent of humanitarian aid trucks that are intended for starving Gazans are reaching their destination as workers in the enclave report a societal breakdown because of the dire conditions.
Scott Anderson, the senior deputy director at UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinians, told the Financial Times last week that there has been a “breakdown in law and order over many months, and in the last week, it has boiled over.”
“Because of this scarcity of animation has morphed over time into criminal elements trying to get to the aid before it reaches our distribution points,” he said.
Jamie McGoldrick, a UN humanitarian coordinator for the Middle East, blamed the scarcity of aid for causing the lawlessness in the enclave.
“If we were able to secure a regular supply, and people saw trucks coming in all the time, they wouldn’t worry about that ‘This may be my only chance to feed my family.’”
The Palestinian media office in Gaza told Middle East Eye that these drops are useless and “not the best way to bring in aid, and we demand the opening of land crossings to bring in thousands of tons of aid immediately and urgently.”
“Dropping aid in this way takes on a showy and propaganda character rather than a humanitarian [one]. We warned previously that they pose a death threat to the lives of citizens in the Gaza Strip, and that is what happened," the office said.
My reaction to that stunt of dropping 38,000 MREs the other day is "big deal." If you do the math, that comes out to about ONE MEAL for TWO PERCENT of the people who have been starving for a couple of months now.