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Sun 10 Aug 2025 1:43 pm - Jerusalem Time

Activists: Even the aid falling on Gaza has become deadly bombs.

In a scene that summarizes the magnitude of the tragedy experienced by the Gaza Strip, death no longer descends from the sky solely through rockets or shells, but has taken on new forms; this time in the shape of boxes that are supposed to be "humanitarian aid," but have transformed from a means of saving lives into tools of death falling from the sky.

Amidst a suffocating siege and a famine that grows day by day, the air-drop operations carried out by several countries have turned into a new nightmare, claiming the lives of dozens and injuring hundreds in painful incidents that have become almost daily.

The latest of these tragedies occurred yesterday, Saturday, when the child Mohannad Eid (14 years old) was martyred after one of the aid boxes fell directly on him in the Al-Nuwairi hill area west of the Al-Nuseirat camp, which also resulted in the injury of several citizens.

This incident marks the fourth since the resumption of air-drop operations for aid on July 16, amidst a suffocating famine imposed by the Israeli blockade on the sector.

According to the government media office in Gaza, the number of victims from the dropping of aid since the beginning of the ongoing genocide has risen to 23 martyrs and 124 injured.

A video clip documenting the moment the box fell on the child Mohannad Eid sparked widespread outrage on social media platforms, where activists described the air-drop operations as "death boxes from the sky."

Activists viewed the scene as a summary of the harsh reality after aid has turned into "silent bombs," in a new method of taking the lives of Gazans under flashy and false slogans.

One activist wrote: "Is it worth all this? A group of boxes that could be delivered by one or two trucks daily is not enough to feed a small neighborhood of Gaza, yet they fall from the sky, killing many Palestinians, promoting Israeli propaganda globally, and increasing the danger to people's lives."

For his part, the Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza, Dr. Munir Al-Bursh, commented: "The humanitarian death box... The child died, not from a bullet, nor from hunger, nor from disease. This time he died from a box of aid that fell on him from the sky."

Activists also called on the countries conducting these operations to exert real political pressure on the occupation to open the crossings and increase the number of trucks, considering that this method is not only humiliating and degrading but also impractical and deadly.

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