Aid airdrop ‘kills five in Gaza’ after parachute fails sending food packages plunging into crowds

The U.S. Department of Defense released video on Thursday (March 7) it said shows U.S. airmen conducting a humanitarian aid drop for Gaza residents. According to the Defense Department, the aid drop included 66 bundles of food, which can provide over 38,000 meals to civilians. Five Palestinians were killed and several were wounded when boxes of aid dropped by planes fell on them by mistake in northwest Gaza on Friday (March 8), said Mahmoud Basal, spokesman of the Civil Emergency Service in Gaza. The drops come as time is rapidly running out for ceasefire talks to reach an agreement on a proposed six-week truce that Washington had hoped would be in place by Ramadan, expected to start on Sunday (March 10). Egyptian security sources have said the ceasefire talks, taking place in Cairo without an Israeli delegation, would resume on Sunday, amid fears that violence could escalate across the region during the Muslim holy month. Read more: