Gaza: Israeli Aid Airdrop Injures 11 Displaced Palestinians as Crates Fall on Tent Camp

Gaza (Quds News Network)- An Israeli aid airdrop over the Gaza Strip injured 11 displaced Palestinians, including 7 who are in serious condition, after aid crates fell onto a tent camp northwest of Gaza City.

According to medical and local sources, an aid crates fell onto a tent in the Karma neighborhood, injuring 11 people.

“This is not an aid airdrop, this is death and humiliation,” a journalist from Gaza wrote.

Israel announced on Saturday it would resume limited airdrops of humanitarian aid and claimed it had designated “safe corridors” for UN and NGO convoys carrying food and medicine.

The Israeli military announced it dropped seven pallets of aid over northern Gaza on Saturday night. This marked the first airdrop in months.

But humanitarian experts said this gesture is symbolic at best. One aid truck carries up to 40 pallets. Gaza needs at least 500 trucks per day to meet minimum humanitarian needs. By comparison, seven pallets fall far short.

Aid officials described airdrops as inefficient, unsafe, and a distraction from real solutions.

Philippe Lazzarini, the head of UNRWA, warned, “Airdrops are a last resort. They’re expensive, random, and dangerous. The only serious solution is to allow aid trucks in at scale.

UN agencies and humanitarian NGOs continue to call on Israel to fully lift the blockade and allow uninterrupted land access to Gaza. Over 6,000 aid trucks are stuck in Egypt and Jordan due to Israeli restrictions and lack of coordination.

The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor strongly condemned the airdrops, calling them “humiliating and ineffective” in addressing the deepening starvation in Gaza. It stressed that only the opening of land corridors in sufficient quantities can meet the needs of the besieged population.

The group described the airdrops as “another layer of Palestinian humiliation and a tool of engineered starvation” designed to serve Israel’s political and military goals.

“These operations pose real risks to civilians, who are densely packed into less than 15% of Gaza’s territory,” the Monitor warned.

It also noted that after months of deliberate, brutal starvation, airdrops fail to meet even the minimum humanitarian threshold and do not offer a real solution to the catastrophic crisis caused by Israel’s blockade.

“We warn against using these drops as a distraction to deflect rising international pressure,” the Monitor added, highlighting that 55 people died of starvation in Gaza in just one week, a result of Israel’s deliberate policy of deprivation.

More than 100 aid and human rights groups this week called on governments to take urgent action as a hunger crisis engulfs Gaza, including by demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire and the lifting of all restrictions on humanitarian aid.