CNN —At least 12 Palestinians drowned off the northern Gaza coast near Beit Lahia on Monday while trying to reach airdropped parcels that had landed in the sea, according to local paramedics.
Abu Mohammad, who witnessed the incident, told CNN the aid was dropped far from the coast into the sea, after which multiple men “who don’t know how to swim drowned” while trying to retrieve it.
Aid parcels are dropped onto the shores of Gaza.
Palestinians retrieve an aid parcel from the sea.
These humanitarian aid drops occur over water and the wind causes the bundles to drift over to land.
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