Several reports have suggested people have died after being hit by air-dropped aid when their parachutes failed to open. 

Five Palestinians were killed and several were wounded when boxes of aid dropped by planes fell on them by mistake in northwest Gaza today, said Mahmoud Basal, spokesman of the Civil Emergency Service in Gaza.

Some footage showed dozens of people running as the boxes were dropped, shouting to one another to avoid the boxes.

Medical sources told Turkish news agency Anadolu that the wounded had been transferred to al Shifa hospital and the Baptist hospital in northern Gaza.

MEZIESBLOG has watched verified videos of the incident but has not been able to confirm the number of fatalities.