Five people were killed when an aid parachute dropped from the air into Gaza on Friday failed, according to reports.
Witnesses in the Gaza Strip and the Hamas-run health ministry said the five people died when at least one parachute failed to deploy and their luggage fell on them, the BBC's US partner CBS reported.
AFP news agency quoted a doctor in the Gaza Strip as saying five people had died. The BBC has not independently verified this.
It is unclear which airdrop was involved in this incident.
The United States, Jordan, Egypt, France, the Netherlands and Belgium have poured aid into Gaza in recent days amid growing concerns about starvation.
Jordanian state television, citing sources, denied that Jordan Air was involved in the incident.
CBS News reported that the incident occurred around 11:30 local time (09:30 Japan time). U.S. Central Command confirmed that a joint airlift of aid supplies to Gaza with the Jordanian Air Force took place around 1:30 p.m. local time.
U.S. Army Gen. Patrick Ryder said the airdrop was not involved in the incident, adding: “We have confirmed that all relief supplies landed safely on the ground.”
The United Nations says a quarter of Gaza's 2.3 million people are on the brink of starvation and children are dying of starvation.
Video posted on social media on Friday and seen by BBC News shows aid being dropped from a C-17 cargo plane over Al-Shati, north of Gaza City, where the region has received little aid in recent months. It is blocked.
Most of the large aid packages deploy their parachutes and fall, but some do not have their parachutes open and fall in an uncontrollable manner.
From the video and screenshots above, it's hard to tell what went wrong. It is not known if this footage captures the incident in which people were reportedly killed.
Aid groups have criticized airlifts, saying they are a last resort and cannot meet surging needs.
The United States has announced it will build a temporary port in Gaza to transport aid directly, but U.S. officials said construction would take several weeks.
Western countries are pressuring Israel to expand aid deliveries by land, facilitate more routes and open additional borders.
British Foreign Secretary David Cameron said: “We continue to urge Israel to allow more trucks into Gaza as this is the fastest way to get aid to those in need.”
Israel denies blocking aid shipments to Gaza and accuses aid groups of failing to distribute aid.
Aid trucks enter southern Gaza through the Egyptian-controlled Rafah crossing and the Israeli-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing. But the north, which was the focus of the first phase of Israel's ground offensive, has been cut off from most aid in recent months.
An estimated 300,000 Palestinians live there with little food and clean water.
The Israeli military, which was overseeing the delivery of civilian aid, said Friday that its troops fired not at the Palestinians around the aid van, but at “suspects” who were nearby and deemed a threat.
Following Hamas' attack on Israel on October 7, the Israeli military launched air and ground operations in Gaza, killing approximately 1,200 people and taking 253 hostages.
More than 30,800 people have been killed in Gaza since then, according to the region's Hamas-run health ministry.
Additional reporting by BBC Verify