PALESTINIAN Territories – A US-based charity said Tuesday it was pausing its Gaza aid operations after seven of its staff were killed in a “targeted Israeli strike” as they unloaded desperately needed food aid delivered by sea from Cyprus.
The aid group said its team was travelling in a “de-conflicted” area in a convoy of “two armored cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle” at the time of the strike.“Despite coordinating movements with the , the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route,” it said.
The bodies were taken to a hospital mortuary in the central town of Deir al-Balah, an AFP photographer reported. Israel has come under immense pressure to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into Gaza which has dwindled to a trickle after almost six months of war. Foreign governments have ramped up deliveries by air and sea, although UN agencies have said repeatedly that road convoys are the only way of supplying food in the volume needed.The bloodiest-ever Gaza war erupted with Hamas’s unprecedented October attack, which resulted in about 1,160 deaths in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
He added that 900 suspects had been apprehended at the sprawling complex, with over 500 of them “definitely” militants.
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