At least 40 people were killed in Israeli shelling of a residential building in northern Gaza on Saturday, Hamas-run authorities said, on a day when a Save the Children employee also died.
Gaza Civil Defense specified that the attack took place in the Tal Al Zaatar area and that inside the building there were mainly groups of displaced people from other parts of the north of the enclave, according to a statement collected by the Palestinian news agency Maan.
Authorities in the Gaza Strip, controlled by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), on Saturday raised the death toll to almost 44,400 and more than 105,100 injured due to the offensive launched by Israel against the enclave following the attacks on October 7, 2023, which caused 1,200 deaths and almost 250 kidnapped in Israeli territory.
The non-governmental organization (NGO) Save the Children reported on Saturday that an employee died in the Israeli bombing, saying it was “devastated and outraged” by the murder of 39-year-old Ahmad Faisal Islim al Qadi, who worked for the administrative team. in Gaza since May this year.
Al Qadi “was murdered in the early hours of Saturday afternoon as he returned home with his wife and three-year-old daughter from the mosque” in the area, one of the epicenters of Israeli attacks in the south of the Gaza Strip.
This is the second death of Save the Children personnel following an Israeli airstrike since the war against Hamas began in October 2023, following attacks by the Palestinian Islamic movement on Israeli soil in which around 1,200 people died and more than two hundred were kidnapped.
Sameh Ewaida, 39, like his wife, four children and members of his family died in December 2023.
“There are not enough words to express the pain and outrage we feel at the loss of Ahmad in the Israeli airstrike. He was a valued member of our team and was greatly loved by everyone who knew him,” said Inger Ashing, executive director of Save the Children International, which demanded immediate accountability for Israeli attacks on members of its organization and other humanitarian workers.
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