At least five employees of the World Central Kitchen (WCK) non-governmental organisation, including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Gaza, the Hamas-run Gaza government media office said late last night.
Those killed in the incident in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah included citizens of Poland, Australia and Britain, as well as one Palestinian, a spokesperson for the media office said.
In a statement, the Islamist group Hamas said the attack aimed to "terrorise" workers of international humanitarian agencies and deter them from pursuing their missions.
Israel's military said it was conducting a "thorough review".
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Four foreign aid workers and their Palestinian driver were killed in an Israeli air strike on Monday, hours after their charity brought in a shipload of food via a maritime route. Earlier in the day, Israel said it had withdrawn from Gaza's main hospital, al-Shifa. Authorities there said the scale of the distruction was massive, and that 'dozens of bodies, some of them decomposed', had been recovered from in and around the complex. Follow our live blog for the latest in the Israel-Gaza war.
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