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Three-year-old Palestinian boy dies after Gaza airdropped aid falls on him

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A three-old Palestinian boy was killed after pallets of aid air dropped in the southern Gazan city of Khan Younis, his family members said, over the weekend. 

The humanitarian crisis has worsened as Israel continues to attack Gaza amid its ongoing war with the Palestinian militant group Hamas. 

The incident happened when the family was eating breakfast and pallets dropped from aeroplanes and careened towards the displacement area, the grandfather of the boy, who is also named Sami Ayyad, told CNN. 

Several family members tried to take cover inside their improvised tents, however, the falling aid killed the three-year-old on the spot. 

Ayyad’s aunt and cousin were also wounded on their foot and face respectively. 

“I was sitting here with the boy, and the moment I left him…the package fell on him,” Ayyad said. “There was only a second between me and him. I carried him and started running.

“We have no hospitals. I ran like crazy, but the boy died instantly. I couldn’t save him. Blood started coming out of his nose and mouth,” he added.

Several countries have been air-dropping aid into Gaza, including the United States, Britain, Jordan, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). 

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Ayyad added, “We don’t want aid. We want dignity. Enough with the humiliation and insult that we are receiving from the Arabs, not just the Israelis. Those who have no mercy on us — look at our children, our women, our elderly.”

Sami’s uncle, Mohammad Ayyad, told CNN, “Our lives are… humiliation, death, horror. I sleep at night not sure if I will wake up. We are human beings, not animals to drop food (to) from the sky.” 

The UAE airdropped 81 food packages into Khan Younis on Saturday (Oct 19), according to the Israeli agency. Over 10,000 packages have been airdropped in recent months, Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, or COGAT, said. 

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(With inputs from agencies)

Mansi Arora

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