Foreign UN worker was among dozens of people killed a day after Israeli air strikes killed more than 400 Palestinians in Gaza, breaking a truce with Hamas.
Published On 19 Mar 2025
Israeli strikes have killed dozens of people, including a foreign aid worker, in Gaza a day after it resumed heavy bombardment across the enclave that shattered a ceasefire with Hamas.
The Israeli strikes attacks early on Wednesday targeted several locations across the Strip. Health authorities said at least three people were killed in a house in Gaza City, while another airstrike left two men dead and wounded six others in Beit Hanoun town in the north.
Palestinian medics also said Israeli tank shelling on Salahdeen road killed one Palestinian and wounded others, while an Israeli airstrike killed three people in a house in Beit Lahiya town north of the enclave.
In central Gaza, Palestinians reported an attack on a home near a mosque in Deir el-Balah area, while Israeli helicopter fire and artillery shelling were reported east of the Bureij refugee camp.
The Gaza Health Ministry said a UN foreign staffer was killed and five other workers were wounded in an airstrike on the site of a UN headquarters in the center of the enclave.
Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of the UN office for Project Services, said: “Israel knew that this was a UN premises, that people were living, staying and working there, it is a compound. It is a very well-known place.”
An explosive device was dropped or fired on the premises, he told a press conference in Brussels. “This was not an accident,” he said. “What’s happening in Gaza is unconscionable.”
The Israeli military said it hit overnight a Hamas site in northern Gaza where it had detected preparations for firing into Israeli territory.
Wednesday’s violence comes after more than 400 Palestinians were killed, many of them children, as Israel resumed its full-fledged bombing of Gaza on Tuesday, breaking a fragile truce with Hamas that had been in place since January 19.
The Gaza Health Ministry said on Wednesday that at least 436 people have been killed since Israel resumed its bombardment.
