Israel bombed a UNRWA food distribution warehouse in Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, on Wednesday, killing at least five people, including a worker from this UN agency for Palestinian refugees, and leaving at least 22 injured. Among those killed by the Israeli attack there is also a Palestinian police officer, according to the organization.
With this death, there are already 163 UNRWA employees who have lost their lives due to Israeli fire, while 157 of its facilities in Gaza have been totally or partially destroyed since the beginning of the invasion of the strip.
In addition, more than 400 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli gunfire or bombs while waiting for humanitarian aid to be delivered, according to the Hamas-controlled Gaza government. On February 29, the so-called “flour massacre” took place, when 118 Gazans were killed and more than 700 wounded, when Israeli soldiers shot at some 12,000 people waiting for a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza City, according to the strip authorities. Last Monday, another nine people died and twenty were injured in another Israeli attack against Palestinians waiting for the arrival of a humanitarian convoy, also in Gaza City.
In total, around 60% of the infrastructure in Gaza, where 2.3 million people lived before the conflict, has been affected, and only seven of the 23 health centers that UNRWA had in the enclave are still open today.
Since October 7, more than 31,000 Gazans have died – three quarters of them women and children – and another 73,000 have been injured, according to data from the Gaza Ministry of Health, which estimates that there are at least 8,000 bodies among the rubble of buildings destroyed by Israeli bombs.
