Palestinian aid official killed in Israeli airstrike in Gaza City
Amjad Hathat was killed while he was supervising the entry of humanitarian aid in the area
A Palestinian aid official was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City, according to local sources on Wednesday.
Amjad Hathat, the director of the Emergency Committee in western Gaza, was killed when Israeli fighter jets struck a gathering of people facilitating the transportation of aid at the Kuwait Roundabout in Gaza City on Tuesday, the sources said.
At least 23 people were killed in the attack, medical sources said.
Hathat was killed while he was supervising the entry of humanitarian aid in the area, the sources said.
His death came one day after Israeli forces killed Brigadier General Fayeq al-mabhouh, the head of police operations in Gaza, during a raid on Al-shifa Hospital in Gaza City.
Al-mabhouh was responsible for coordinating the entry of humanitarian aid with Palestinian tribes and the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) into the northern Gaza Strip, Gaza’s government media office said.
The Gaza-based Health Ministry made the statement as Israel’s deadly onslaught on Gaza entered its 166th day.
The ongoing onslaught has also injured 74,096 Palestinians, it added.
The statement said that in the past 24 hours, the Israeli army committed 10 massacres across the Gaza Strip, killing 104 people and injuring 162 others.
“Many people are still trapped under rubble and on the roads and rescuers can’t reach them,” it added.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip since an October 7 crossborder attack by Hamas which killed some 1,200 people.
The Israeli war on Gaza has pushed 85 per cent of the territory’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60 per cent of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice. An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza.
Hostilities have continued unabated, however, and aid deliveries remain woefully insufficient to address the
humanitarian catastrophe.
Hathat’sdeath came one day after Israeli forces killed Brigadier General Fayeq al Mabhouh, the head of police operations in Gaza, during a raid
30 more detained in West Bank
At least 30 Palestinians were detained in fresh Israeli military raids in the occupied West Bank late on Tuesday, according to prisoners’ affairs groups.
A woman and former prisoners were among the detainees, the Commission of Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoner Society said in a joint statement on Wednesday.
Most of the arrests took place in the cities of Hebron, Tulkarm, Nablus, Ramallah, Jerusalem and Jericho, the statement added.