Israeli bombing of NGO warehouse kills four aid workers in Khan Yunis

An airstrike by the Israeli army has killed at least four aid workers at an NGO warehouse in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

The Al Jair Foundationbased in London, confirmed this Friday in a message posted on the social network X that one of its workers, Hosam Mansur, has died due to an air strike against a warehouse of the NGO in the Al Mawasi city.

According to the pan-Arab channel Al Jazeera, three other workers from the same NGO, which provides humanitarian aid to the Gazan population, were reportedly killed in the bombing, although the NGO has not yet commented on the matter.

On the other hand, the Israeli Army has withdrawn this Friday from more neighborhoods of Gaza City, leaving dozens of corpses in its wake, according to the Civil Defense of the territory, which only in the area of Such as Hawa has recovered about 60 bodiesMeanwhile, Israel continues to launch heavy attacks on Rafah, the southernmost town in the Gaza Strip.

Specifically, Israeli troops have withdrawn today from the neighborhoods of Tal al Hawa and Rimalas well as the headquarters of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in the Gaza capital, where Israel is launching a new offensive to try to prevent Hamas militants from regrouping.

Only on Thursday, Civil Defense rescue teams recovered another 60 corpses from the neighborhood of Shujaiyawhich has been left completely uninhabitable after the passage of Israeli soldiers, who abandoned it on the night of Wednesday into Thursday.

On Friday, the army announced that during its operations in Shujaiya it managed to eliminate the deputy commander of the Hamas battalion in the neighborhood, whom it identified as Ayman Showadeh. According to Israel, Showadeh participated in the planning of the attacks of October 7 and directed numerous attacks against Israeli troops.

The army also said that during its attacks in Shujaiya it eliminated more than 150 suspected militants, including a commander identified as Ubadah Abu Heen, to whom it attributed an “important role” in the fighting in Gaza.