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This picture taken from Israel's southern border with the Gaza Strip shows a Royal Jordanian Air Force C-130 Hercules turboprop military transport aircraft dropping humanitarian aid chutes during a flyover above the besieged Palestinian territory on March 26, 2024, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the militant group Hamas. Seven people have drowned in the Mediterranean trying to reach aid airdropped into Gaza, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said on March 26. Six people were also injured in the previous day's airdrop, the ministry said. Hamas said a total of 18 people have now been killed in drownings or stampedes since aid airdrops to the starving north of the besieged territory began. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP)
Twelve people have drowned and six been killed in stampedes trying to recover aid airdropped into Gaza, Hamas said on Tuesday.
The deaths happened in the starving north of the besieged territory on Monday, with people rushing to collect packages dropped from planes along Gaza's Mediterranean coast.