At least five people were killed in an Israeli air strike on an aid convoy carrying fuel and medicine to a hospital in southern Gaza, a day after a food convoy was shot at near an Israeli checkpoint.
The five Palestinian men killed were in the lead vehicle of a convoy for the Washington-based American Near East Refugee Aid agency, whose movements had been co-ordinated with the Israeli military, the agency and two other people familiar with the issue said.
“This is a shocking incident,” said Sandra Rasheed, Palestine country director for Anera, in a statement, adding that the remaining vehicles in the convoy had continued on to the Emirati Red Crescent Hospital. “We are urgently seeking further details about what happened.”