Palestinian child killed during aid airdrop in south Gaza

Al Jazeera is reporting that at least one child has been killed attempting to retrieve relief supplies during an aerial aid delivery in Khan Younis, south Gaza. 

As Israel controls land entrances to Gaza and refuses to allow adequate aid into the territory over land, several countries have dropped aid over the territory from the air.

Aid groups criticise the strategy as inefficient and incapable of providing the level of food and other resources needed by Palestinians in Gaza.

Cindy McCain, director of the World Food Programme (WFP), criticised the relief distribution method late on Wednesday, writing on X: "We can’t airdrop our way out of an unfolding famine. Not in Gaza."