A team of charitable workers has been killed in Israeli strikes in northern Gaza, the Al Khair foundation registered in the United Kingdom at the BBC.
The charitable organization said eight workers – including volunteers and journalists documenting their activities – were killed when their vehicles were targeted on Saturday in what Hamas described as a “blatant violation” of the cease -fire agreement with Israel.
The Israeli army said that it had struck “two terrorists who were identified operating a drone which represented a threat to Israeli troops”, adding that it then targeted “additional terrorists” who arrived on the scene.
The charitable organization rejects the allegation according to which the members of its team were terrorists.
Qasim Rashid Ahmad, founder and president of the charitable organization, told the BBC that the team was in the region to create tents and document it for the promotion efforts of the charitable organization.
He said that his two cameras returned to the car and were struck, while other members of the team who rushed to the scene were then struck by an Israeli drone who had followed them when they went to the second car of the charity.
Several others were injured and transported urgently to Indonesian hospital in the north of Gaza, the Ministry of Health managed by Hamas said.
A spokesman for the group, Hazem Qassem, said that Israel had “committed a horrible massacre in the Northern Gaza Strip by targeting a group of journalists and humanitarian workers”.
A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been in place since January, but its future is uncertain because the process has reached a dead end of return to fights.
The war began after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, killing around 1,200 people and bringing 251 to Gaza in hostages.
Israel responded with a massive military offensive, which killed more than 48,300 Palestinians, said the Gaza Ministry of Health in Gaza.
