At least one aid worker was killed and 22 others wounded when Israeli forces struck a humanitarian aid distribution center in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, U.N. officials said Wednesday.
Philippe Lazzarini, commissioner-general of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians, said the agency provided the Israeli Army with coordinates of the facility a day earlier so it would not be hit.
“Today’s attack on one of the very few remaining UNRWA distribution centers in the Gaza Strip comes as food supplies are running out, hunger is widespread and, in some areas, turning into famine," Lazzarini said in a statement. "Every day, we share the coordinates of all our facilities across the Gaza Strip with parties to the conflict."