Smoke and flame rise after Israeli air forces targeting a shopping center in Gaza Strip, Gaza on October 07, 2023.
Smoke and flame rise after Israeli air forces targeting a shopping center in Gaza Strip, Gaza on October 07, 2023.
  • A UN aid worker was killed in Gaza along with 70 members of his family in an Israeli airstrike.
  • Israel's aerial bombardment campaign has killed around 20,000 people, the Gazan health ministry said.
  • About 70% of those killed have been women and children, UN agencies have said.

A veteran UN aid worker was killed in Gaza along with 70 members of his extended family in an Israeli airstrike, a UN representative said.

Issam Al-Mughrabi, 56, was killed along with his wife and five children in Gaza City on Friday, United Nations Development Programme administrator Achim Steiner said in a statement.