Re: Incompetent Biden Air Force Gaza air drop mishap reportedly kills five, injures 10 as U.S., Jordan deny any involvement in incident

On 2024-03-10, American way <[email protected]> wrote:
> Video of an air drop in the Gaza Strip this week appeared to show aid 
> packages suffering a parachute malfunction, which local reports claim 
> resulted in the deaths of several individuals.  Initial reports, citing 
> sources in the Gaza Strip, claimed that the air drop came from a U.S. 
> cargo plane, but the Pentagon told Fox News Digital that "Reports of 
> injuries in Gaza from a U.S. airdropped aid box are false." 
>
> "We have no additional information to provide on this," the spokesperson 
> added when pressed for more details, but CENTCOM later wrote in a post on 
> social media platform X that officials "are aware of reports of civilians 
> killed as a result of humanitarian airdrops."  
>
> "We express sympathies to the families of those who were killed," the 
> message said, once more stressing that "contrary to some reports," the 
> incident did not occur as a result of U.S. airdrops.  
>
> THERE ARE STILL AMERICANS IN HAMAS' CAPTIVITY: RONEN NEUTRA 
>
> Video on social media appears to show an air drop on the al-Shati refugee 
> camp, with several packages dropping without parachutes. Reports claim 
> that five people died, and 10 others were injured due to the malfunction, 
> with one witness in the camp saying the packages "fell down like a rocket 
> on the roof of one of the houses."  
>
> "Ten minutes later, I saw people transferring three martyrs and others 
> injured, who were staying on the roof of the house where ethe aid packages 
> fell," Mohammed al-Ghoul, 50, told the Agence France-Press (AFP).  
>
> The U.S. earlier this week initiated a series of air drops to deliver tens 
> of thousands of meals along the Gaza coastline, working with the Royal 
> Jordanian Air Force to complete the operation, CENTCOM said in a statement 
> released Wednesday.  
>
> IDF RELEASES REVIEW OF DEADLY SHOOTING NEAR AID CONVOY IN GAZA, SAYS 
> PALESTINIANS FIRED AT ‘POSED A THREAT’ 
>
> "The DoD humanitarian airdrops contribute to ongoing U.S. and partner-
> nation government efforts to alleviate human suffering," the statement 
> read. "These airdrops are part of a sustained effort, and we continue to 
> plan follow on aerial deliveries."  The Wednesday drop delivered 38,000 
> meals, dropped from U.S. C-130s, and subsequent drops on Thursday and 
> Friday delivered 41,000 "meal equivalents" and 23,000 bottles of water and 
> 11,500 "meal equivalents" and "life-saving humanitarian aid," 
> respectively.  
>
> Each airdrop occurred with assistance from the Jordanian air force. Fox 
> News Digital reached out to the Jordanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and 
> the Jordanian Embassy in Washington, D.C., but received no response by the 
> time of publication.   
>
> A Jordanian military source told the AFP that none of the kingdom’s four 
> aircraft that participated in the operation had any involvement with the 
> fatalities. 
>
> DENNIS KUCINICH: A CEASE-FIRE WOULD BE IN ISRAEL AND THE PALESTINIANS' 
> INTEREST 
>
> "The technical defect that caused some parachutes carrying aid not to open 
> and to fall freely to the ground during the airdrop on Gaza on Friday was 
> not from a Jordanian aircraft," the source said, noting that five other 
> countries were involved in the operation.   
>
> Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium have also dropped aid into the 
> Gaza Strip over the past week, according to the BBC.  
>
> The Gaza media office insisted that airdrops were "not the best way for 
> aid to enter" the region, which President Biden appears to have taken to 
> heart as he looks to build a temporary pier for increased aid delivery on 
> the coast.  The United Nations, meanwhile, has argued that land deliveries 
> have proven the most effective means to deliver aid, but passage through 
> the Rafah Crossing remains difficult. 
>
> https://www.foxnews.com/world/gaza-air-drop-mishap-reportedly-kills-5-
> injures-10-us-jordan-deny-involvement-incident

Maybe Joe Biden should bring back the Norden Bombsight from the WW2, Vietnam era?


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