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2024-03-08 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

Gaza hospital medic confirms US aid airdrop killed five

[Times of Israel] A medic at Gaza’s largest hospital says a humanitarian airdrop in the north of the Palestinian territory killed five people and wounded 10.

The casualties were taken to Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital after the parachutes holding the aid didn’t open properly, causing some of the packages to land on civilians at high speeds, the emergency room’s head nurse, Mohammed al-Sheikh, tells AFP.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-08 11:30|| || Front Page|| [11143 views ] Top
File under: Hamas

#1 A Computerized Air Release Point (CARP) daylight drop, with made-for-media streaming vid? WTF ?

Nobody servicing the drop zone (DZ)? Drop Zone Safety Officer (DZSO)? Reception committee? Security? IDF coordination? Drone coverage? Distribution actions on the DZ? Leaflet warning drop...prior to pallets ?

How about a 0300 TOT when everybody 'should' be in bed ?

Not very well thought out. Not very well at all. Per usual, Biden administration heartfelt thanks to the dead.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-08 11:37|| 2024-03-08 11:37|| Front Page Top

#2 Oh, those unintended consequences....

Posted by DooDahMan 2024-03-08 11:38|| 2024-03-08 11:38|| Front Page Top

#3 ...I figure at LEAST a 90 percent chance it didn't happen.

Mike

Posted by MikeKozlowski 2024-03-08 11:51|| 2024-03-08 11:51|| Front Page Top

#4 Could be Mike. Dog bites feeding hand? Yes, could be.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-03-08 11:55|| 2024-03-08 11:55|| Front Page Top

#5 as God is my witness I thought parachutes would open

Posted by lord garth 2024-03-08 12:03|| 2024-03-08 12:03|| Front Page Top

#6 That's the claim anyway. The US pays very well for those who are killed or injured by mistake.

Posted by Marilyn Thronter5744 2024-03-08 13:53|| 2024-03-08 13:53|| Front Page Top

#7 Give a person food and he is full for a day. Airdrop it on him and he will never be hungry again.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-03-08 13:58|| 2024-03-08 13:58|| Front Page Top

#8 #7 Snark of the day?

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-08 14:14|| 2024-03-08 14:14|| Front Page Top

#9 Imprimus: were the parachutes "Made in China"?

Secundus: Maybe USN should airdrop aid to Houtis.

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-08 14:16|| 2024-03-08 14:16|| Front Page Top

#10 The Quick and the Dead - Tales of the Gaza Airdrop

Posted by SteveS 2024-03-08 14:28|| 2024-03-08 14:28|| Front Page Top

#11 Saw video of the failed airdrop, looked to me like the chutes were sabotaged on purpose.

Posted by Beldar Uneter3543 2024-03-08 15:01|| 2024-03-08 15:01|| Front Page Top

#12 This is why in an airborne operation you drop the heavy equipment before shoving the troops out the door at the DZ.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-03-08 16:10|| 2024-03-08 16:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Everything this Dumpster Fire administration does is about politics, including someone pushing the daylight, rushed airdrop of MRE's not Humanitarian Aid Meals, to get pictures to buy off the domestic resistance to supporting Israel.

Why else would we now be sending the Navy to build a Port for Gaza? Why in Gods name does the Gaza Strip need a Port except to permit shipping without entry to Egypt or Israel? And why would you want that if its just humanitarian aid?

Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-03-08 16:56|| 2024-03-08 16:56|| Front Page Top

#14 ^ Some of the weapons the US is surreptitiously providing to Hamas need to come by ship.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-03-08 17:24|| 2024-03-08 17:24|| Front Page Top

#15 ^I don't think USA will provide weapons, but Hamas will definitely try to use americans building the port as human shields for qassam launching

Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-03-08 17:35|| 2024-03-08 17:35|| Front Page Top

#16 Won't be Americans building it: Contracting to Gazook ~~Hamas~~ Subcontractors

Posted by Frank G 2024-03-08 19:28|| 2024-03-08 19:28|| Front Page Top

#17 With all the Contracting Requirements and Audits per NYC Cartage Industries' businesses

Posted by Frank G 2024-03-08 19:30|| 2024-03-08 19:30|| Front Page Top

#18 This new facility that's gonna be so popular with everyone will need a worthy name...

A poorly planned mission! Abort?
It's Pentagon sponsors all snort
As they damn not qassams
But the entity's bombs
On Hamas's new Liberty Port.

Posted by Elmaviper Flanter4976 2024-03-08 19:30|| 2024-03-08 19:30|| Front Page Top

#19 And spellcheck finds the one indignity I can't suffer meekly... ~~it's~~ its.

Posted by Elmaviper Flanter4976 2024-03-08 19:35|| 2024-03-08 19:35|| Front Page Top

#20 Do it again. Doing a better job than IDF snipers!

Posted by Fat Bob Untervehr8471 2024-03-08 20:05|| 2024-03-08 20:05|| Front Page Top

#21 the one indignity I can't suffer meekly... it's its.

Oh thank goodness — that one was painful, Zenobia F.

Posted by trailing wife 2024-03-08 21:56|| 2024-03-08 21:56|| Front Page Top

#22 His hers its

He's she's it's.

Simplisme.

Posted by Fred 2024-03-08 23:53|| 2024-03-08 23:53|| Front Page Top

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