Four people die after Israeli bombings at a Gaza border crossing where humanitarian aid is arriving
Four people were killed this Thursday by a bomb attack by the Israeli army at the Kerem Shalom border crossing, a border point between the Gaza Strip and Israel where humanitarian aid is taking place, reported the government of the Palestinian enclave, which is controlled by the Islamist group Hamas. “Four martyrs, including the head of the border crossing, Colonel Basam Ghaben al Qasaq, were found” at the border point where they died while working, the border crossing authority and the strip's health ministry said. Since the war broke out on October 7, Israel has waged a harsh offensive by air, land and sea against the enclave, which has already left more than 20,000 dead, 52,600 injured and 1.9 million displaced, almost the entire population an unprecedented humanitarian crisis due to the collapse of hospitals, outbreaks of epidemics and shortages of drinking water, food, medicine and electricity.