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Twelve people drowned trying to get to aid dropped by plane off a Gaza beach, Palestinian health authorities have said, amid growing fears of famine nearly six months into Israel’s military campaign.
Video of the airdrop on Monday showed crowds of people running towards the beach, in Beit Lahiya in north Gaza, as crates with parachutes floated down, then people standing deep in water and bodies being pulled on to the sand.
In Washington, the Pentagon said three of the 18 bundles of airdropped aid into Gaza on Monday had parachute malfunctions and fell into the water, but could not confirm if anyone was killed trying to reach the aid.
Yeah except this is the American military industrial complex. That 17% to 1% would have been a 2 cent increase for a parachute they’re probably charging 5k per unit.
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If it has a 17% failure rate the certification and quality control are pretty worthless.
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Mmm yes daddy continue to use numbers and corporate brain to justify the US military’s many failures to actually deliver aid (oh, and the people those failures killed)
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I would think you’d be more mad about the US bombs that have killed tens of thousands instead of the few squished by actual aid packages, but here we are.