PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES: The dire conditions more than five months into the war have led some countries to airdrop food and other assistance over the besieged Gaza Strip, but a parachute malfunction turned the latest operation lethal on Friday.Five Palestinians were killed and 10 wounded north of the coastal Al-Shati refugee camp, said Mohammed al-Sheikh, emergency room head nurse at Gaza City’s Al-Shifa hospital.A witness told AFP he and his brother followed the parachuted aid in the hope of getting “a bag of flour”.”Then, all of a sudden, the parachute didn’t open and fell down like a rocket,” hitting a house, said Mohammed al-Ghoul.Jordanian and US military officials denied that aircraft from either country caused the fatalities.”We express sympathies to the families of those who were killed,” the US Central Command said in a statement.”Contrary to some reports, this was not the result of U.S. airdrops.”Belgium, Egypt, France and the Netherlands were also involved in the airdrop.
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