“The repetition of casualties due to air-drop operations is painful, harsh, and tragic.”
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine described the martyrdom of 18 Palestinian citizens due to the incorrect air-drop of aid, including 12 drownings and 6 due to stampedes, as painful, harsh, and tragic, which must be stopped immediately due to their ineffectiveness and causing the martyrdom and injury of dozens of hungry and exhausted citizens due to the occupation’s crimes in recent weeks.
The Front considered the repetition of casualties due to air-drop operations on citizens or houses, or due to their failure to reach everyone, or their falling into the sea or inside the occupied lands, confirms the necessity to stop this process because its results are contrary to its goals, especially since some air-drop operations are showy, or an attempt to create an alternative to land routes, and to absolve the occupation of its crimes and the starvation war it wages on our people.
The Front confirmed that the alternative to “humiliating” air operations is to introduce aid through all crossings, especially the Rafah crossing, and via land routes to all areas of the Strip without exception. The deliberate overlook by the international community of this essential priority means contributing to the suffering of our people and more victims due to the sterile and harmful air-drop operations.
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
Central Media Department
26-3-2024