An Israeli airstrike on a automobile within the Gaza Strip on Saturday killed 5 individuals, together with workers of the charity World Central Kitchen, with Israel saying it had focused a militant who took half within the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas assaults.
The U.S.-based charity mentioned it had no data anybody within the car had alleged ties to the 2023 assaults towards Israel and was “urgently searching for extra particulars” concerning the matter. It mentioned it’s pausing its operations in Gaza.
The Israeli navy mentioned the alleged Oct. 7 attacker focused within the strike took half within the assault on the kibbutz of Nir Oz, and it requested “senior officers from the worldwide neighborhood” and the WCK to make clear how he had come to work for the charity.
The Israel Protection Forces recognized the person as Hazmi Kadih and mentioned he had been “monitored by IDF intelligence for some time.”
Palestinian well being official Muneer Alboursh confirmed the strike, and an assist employee in Gaza confirmed that three of these killed have been employees with the WCK, the Related Press reported.
Individually, British assist company Save the Kids mentioned certainly one of its employees members was additionally killed on Saturday afternoon in Khan Younis, the BBC reported. It’s unclear whether or not he was killed in the identical strike because the WCK workers.
World Central Kitchen had suspended work in Gaza earlier this yr after an Israeli strike killed seven of its employees.