A United Nations worker was killed in an attack on a vehicle in the Gaza Strip. In addition, a group of right-wing extremist Israeli activists reportedly stopped aid transports for the civilian population in the Gaza Strip on Monday.
According to a spokesperson on Monday, it is the first time that an international UN worker has been killed in the Gaza Strip since the escalation of violence seven months ago. Another UN worker was injured in the incident, according to the world body. The exact background, nationality of the victims and their gender initially remained unclear.
The car in which the employees traveled to a hospital was clearly marked as a UN vehicle. In total, almost 200 UN workers have been killed since the start of the Gaza war – all of them Palestinians so far.
Israeli right-wing extremists stopped the aid transports
Meanwhile, a group of right-wing extremist Israeli activists stopped aid shipments for civilians in the Gaza Strip on Monday, according to press reports. According to Israeli and Palestinian media, the trucks were blocked at the border crossing between the southern West Bank and Israel. The Times of Israel newspaper reported that four of the approximately 100 activists had been arrested. According to lawyers for the demonstrators, there was also a minor among them.
Nine trucks were damaged during the protest at the Tarkumiyeh checkpoint west of Hebron in the occupied West Bank. The activists also removed relief supplies from the trucks. Footage shared online shows activists throwing the truckloads to the ground. Cardboard boxes burst open and their contents were scattered across the street.
Seven months after the start of Israel’s military operation against Islamist Hamas, more than a million people in the Gaza Strip are affected by acute food insecurity and are at risk of going hungry, the UN emergency agency OCHA said. The World Food Program (WFP) had warned of famine in the north of the coastal strip, which has been devastated in large parts. Malnutrition among children there is progressing rapidly, a report said.
Hamas: No more contact with guards of four hostages
As the situation continues to deteriorate, concerns over the kidnapped Israeli hostages are becoming increasingly acute. Islamist Hamas has lost contact with the guards of four Israeli hostages in the Gaza Strip in the past 10 days due to Israeli airstrikes, a spokesman said. Among these hostages was the American-Israeli Hersh Goldberg-Polin, a spokesperson for the Qassam Brigades – the military wing of the Islamist Hamas – wrote on the Telegram news channel. Goldberg-Polin was seen in a Hamas propaganda video about two weeks ago.
When and under what circumstances it was made is unknown. It was the first sign of life for the 23-year-old, who was captured by Hamas terrorists on October 7 as one of the attendees of the Nova music festival and abducted to the Gaza Strip.
On October 7, approximately 1,200 people were killed and 250 others taken hostage in the unprecedented massacre by Hamas and other Islamist groups in Israel. The terrorist attack led to the Gaza War, in which Israel takes action against Hamas, which is entrenched in residential areas and in numerous tunnels.
Source: Krone
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