Aid workers killed in Israeli air strike in Gaza tells the charity to BBC

The Britain-Penkedly Al Khair Foundation has told the BBC that a team of charity workers has been killed in the Israeli strike in North Gaza.

Charity stated that eight workers – which included documentation of their activities to volunteers and journalists – when their vehicles were targeted on Saturday, which Hamas described as the “clear violation” of the ceasefire agreement with Israel.

The Israeli army has stated that it had “killed two terrorists, who were identified to operate a drone, which was a threat to the Israeli soldiers”, saying that it targeted “additional terrorists”, who reached the spot.

Charity dismisses the allegation that its team members were terrorists.

Casim Rashid Ahmed, the founder and president of the charity, said that the BBC team was in the area to install tents and to document it for his own promotional efforts.

He said that its cameraman came back into the car and was killed, while members of the other team who reached the spot, were killed by an Israeli drone, who had followed him when he went to another car of charity.

According to Palestinian journalist Syndicate, video editor Bilal Abu Matar and Cameraman Mahmood Al-Sararaj, Bilal Akila and Mahmood Asleem were killed in the strike.

The organization accused Israel of “fulfilling the systematic targeting of Palestinian journalists, which puts their lives at risk to report the truth and highlight Israel’s crimes for the world”.

Hamas -run Health Ministry said many other people were injured in the strike, and rushed to Indonesian Hospital in North Gaza Strip.

A spokesman of the group, Hazam Kasem, accused Israel of being a “horrific genocide in the North Gaza Strip”.

A ceasefire between Israel and Hamas has been implemented after the 15 -month fight since January, but its future is uncertain as this process has reached a deadlock.

In the first phase of the multi-stage deal, Hamas saw dozens of hostages back, both survived and dead, that it captured Israel on 7 October 2023 during his attacks in exchange for about 1,800 Palestinian prisoners of Israel on Israel.

Negotiations to expand the first phase of the ceasefire – which ended on 1 March – ended without an agreement, A Palestinian officer told BBC on Saturday,

The negotiaters were working on a US-produced expansion, including another exchange of hostages and prisoners.

Washington accused Hamas of “fully impractical” demands. The group has demanded immediate conversation in the second phase, including a permanent ceasefire discussion, as excluded. Agreement compromised by Qatar, Egypt and America in January,

On 7 October 2023, about 1,200 people were killed and 251 others were held hostage in Gaza in Hamas’s unprecedented attack on Israel.

Gaza’s Hamas-Interested Health Ministry says Israel replied with a large-scale military aggressive on the Palestinian region, killing over 48,300 people.