US rejects Hamas plea to halt Gaza airdrops
The Philippine Star|March 28, 2024
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES AFP) The United States said Tuesday it would continue airdrops of aid to besieged Gaza, despite pleas from Hamas to stop the practice after it said 18 people had died trying to reach food packages.
US rejects Hamas plea to halt Gaza airdrops

Hamas demanded that its enemy Israel instead allow more aid trucks to enter the war-torn territory, which the United Nations has warned is on the brink of a “man-made famine” after nearly six months of war.

Fighting raged unabated on Tuesday, a day after the UN Security Council passed its first resolution calling for an “immediate ceasefire” and urging the release of the roughly 130 hostages Israel says remain in Gaza, including 34 captives who are presumed dead.

The health ministry in Hamasrun Gaza said 12 people, including some children were killed when an air strike hit a displacement camp late on Tuesday near the southern city of Khan Yunis.

Israeli forces were continuing an assault on Gaza City’s largest hospital, and their forces have surrounded two other medical facilities in Khan Yunis.

The Palestinian Red Crescent warned that thousands were trapped in the Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis and “their lives are in danger.”

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