An elderly man has died of injuries sustained when an aid box fell on a tent for displaced people in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, the Nasser Hospital has said, Al Jazeera reports.

Several people have been killed or injured by air dropped aid pallets in Gaza in recent weeks.

Aid agencies have said that air drops are dangerous and are ineffective when Gaza’s entire population of more than two million people is facing famine, and have repeatedly called on Israel to allow the unfettered distribution of aid in Gaza through land crossings.

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