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Gaza authorities say 5 killed by food aid pallet

It's unclear what country dropped a food pallet whose parachute failed to open, killing five people, according to authorities in Gaza. U.S. officials say all American food parcels have been dropped safely in the territory. NBC News' Richard Engel reports. » Subscribe to NBC News: https://www.youtube.com/user/NBCNews NBC News Digital is a collection of innovative and powerful news brands that deliver compelling, diverse and engaging news stories. NBC News Digital features NBCNews.com, MSNBC.com, TODAY.com, Nightly News, Meet the Press, Dateline, and the existing apps and digital extensions of these respective properties. We deliver the best in breaking news, live video coverage, original journalism and segments from your favorite NBC News Shows. Connect with NBC News Online! Breaking News Alerts: https://link.nbcnews.com/join/5cj/breaking-news-signup?cid=sm_npd_nn_yt_bn-clip_190621 Visit NBCNews.Com: https://www.nbcnews.com/ Find NBC News on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/NBCNews Follow NBC News on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NBCNews Get more of NBC News delivered to your inbox: nbcnews.com/newsletters #IsraelHamasWar #Gaza #Aid

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this is what an aid drop into Gaza is supposed to look like as today a Jordanian military cargo plane dropped pallets of food near Gaza City they fall slowly but this also happened today as the pallets are dropped by another aircraft one of the parachutes on the right of the screen fails to open the package comes apart in midair the pieces falling down with heavy thuds the other pallets also drop very quick quickly Palestinian medical officials and Witnesses say five people were crushed to death
to establish a temporary pier in the Mediterranean last night President Biden announced the US military will build a peer to improve and expand the delivery of humanitarian Aid NBC News has learned it could take up to 60 days for it to be fully operational but Washington also supplies Israel with weapons instead of telling us they will build a port to help us stop giving the weapons they used to kill us this man said we were on an aid drop yesterday as a Jordanian military C130 flew over Northe
rn Gaza they've just given the signal that they're ready to drop the pallets carried tens of thousands of meals our crew filmed as hungry people went searching for food as they searched they approached Israeli troops because that's where the food Aid was not long after an explosion can be heard and an injured man is taken from the area the Israeli military says its troops have opened fire on those who appear to pose a threat gonin face an impossible dilemma do nothing and go hungry and maybe sta
rve or search for food at the risk of being shot or hit by rigning pallets Lester thanks for watching stay updated about breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or follow us on social media

Comments

@gruntgamer4204

Imagine starving to death only to ultimately be killed by food falling from the sky. ☠️

@Badhero4

Call of Duty taught me not to stand underneath the care packages.

@JohnFelinn

It’s crazy to have to do this when they have trucks full of supplies idling at the border.

@Truekingr6

Don't stand under the care package noobs

@ouigibrd

$20,000 missile kills 2 . $200 Pallet of tv dinners kills 5. Hmmm

@DUDEfreestyle

I can already hear it......."Stop the air drops, stop air dropping innocent kids and women"

@diminudivadollhaus2097

Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

@larrysimmons6082

Look how our government helps both sides ..!! Our country is so corrupt

@pr-ji1ni

Israelis taking notes. We can expect them to start sending in their own aid pallets.

@Clay-qj1cg

Its unfortunate but I blame it on their leadership. They did something irreversible without thinking about everything that coukd go wrong.

@bubbapate5740

So did anyone on the planet think that dropping pallets of food out of an airplane would never cause someone to get killed?

@Matt-xc6sp

Even worse xxx_ABDUL_xxx came up and teabagged him before he stole his juggernaut

@hiramabiff2017

Not a ounce of food drop would have been necessary. If their political leaders had not given those orders last Oct.

@CoachCreesh

I used to wonder what kind of evil an individual has to be to laugh and joke about others in unspeakable pain. But, there's so many fully DEMONICALLY POSSESSED people walking this earth doing EVIL and speaking EVIL I no longer wonder.

@chrissorensen9511

Just no pleasin’, is there. smh

@sd906238

What is worst getting hit by a pallet of food or finding out all of the TV dinners a pork.

@AJXOXO-vz1pn

If Palestine doesn’t wantAmerica to give weapons to Israel, maybe they shouldn’t be giving weapons to Hamas.

@JoeFlation

When humanitarian aid is more deady then the fighting..........

@wintersoldier6477

They should have thought about all that before they decided to elect a terrorist organization as their leaders😮

@Ivan.A.Trulyuski

This was a negligent accident, clearly the pallets were loaded with a weight over the capacity of the parachutes. Also nobody has stated where these people died, for all you know these pallets could have broken through the ceiling of their homes. Hard to avoid something you can’t see.