5 Humanitarian Workers Killed in Israeli Strikes on Gaza, Says IHH
Turkish Relief Organization Condemns Targeting of Aid Workers Delivering Food with UN World Food Programme.
Watan-The IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation, headquartered in Istanbul, announced on Wednesday that five of its aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrikes over the past two days while attempting to deliver humanitarian assistance to Palestinians in Gaza in cooperation with the World Food Programme (WFP).
In an official statement, the organization said:“Five of our colleagues working on our Gaza project, implemented in partnership with the World Food Programme, were martyred as a result of attacks by Israeli occupation forces in the past two days. Two others were severely injured.”
The IHH condemned the attacks as a “heinous assault” targeting humanitarian workers who risk their lives to deliver aid to oppressed Palestinians in Gaza.
The statement added:“May God have mercy on our martyrs and grant patience to their families. The martyrs are: Mohammed Al-Mubayyid, Ahmed Bostan, Moataz Rajab, Ishaq Al-Taif, and Jamal Al-Mubayyid.”
Since October 7, 2023, Israel—with full U.S. support—has been committing what many international observers now label a genocide in Gaza, resulting in nearly 177,000 Palestinians killed or wounded, the majority of them women and children, with over 11,000 missing and hundreds of thousands forcibly displaced.
In a policy of deliberate starvation, Israel has effectively pushed 2.4 million Palestinians into famine by sealing Gaza’s border crossings to humanitarian aid—especially food—since March 2, accelerating what observers describe as forced displacement through starvation.
