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UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The United Nations World Food Program suspended the movement of its staff around the Gaza Strip on Wednesday after it said one of its vehicles displaying its logo was hit by a at least 10 bullets while approaching an Israeli military checkpoint. .

The program said in a statement that the convoy, which included two armored vehicles, “received several approvals from the Israeli authorities to approach” the checkpoint at the Wadi Gaza Bridge on Tuesday evening. The bullets were aimed at one of the two cars, but no one inside was injured.

The program said, “Although this is not the first security incident that has occurred during the war, this is the first time that a World Food Program vehicle has been exposed to fire right near a checkpoint that ‘ despite obtaining the necessary permits. “

The WFP said the vehicle was “a few meters” from an Israeli checkpoint when it caught fire.

The Israeli army said in a statement on Wednesday that the incident was under investigation. He said, “The State of Israel is committed to improving coordination and security with humanitarian agencies to ensure the effective delivery of aid within the Gaza Strip.”

There have been previous incidents where relief organizations and humanitarian organizations have come under fire during the war. In April, three Israeli airstrikes targeted a relief convoy moving through Gaza, killing seven World Central Kitchen workers.

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Wednesday that relief operations in Gaza were “severely hampered by hostilities, insecurity and mass evacuation orders affecting aid transport routes and resources.”

The United Nations Security Council will hold a meeting on Thursday, at the request of Britain and Switzerland, regarding the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip. The British mission to the United Nations said in a post on X, “The United Nations is warning that relief operations and workers inside Gaza are at risk, at a time when a vaccination campaign is urgently needed to stop the spread of polio.”

The United Nations is preparing to vaccinate some 640,000 children in Gaza, as the World Health Organization said a 10-month-old baby was paralyzed by the type 2 polio virus, the first case of its kind in the Strip in 25 years.

The latest war in Gaza began when the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) launched an attack on Israel on October 7, which they say killed 1,200 people and took about 250 hostages.

The subsequent Israeli assault on the Strip killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to the region’s health ministry. Almost the entire population of 2.3 million people had to flee. It also caused a hunger crisis, which led to accusations going up in the International Court of Justice against Israel for committing genocide, which they deny.

The United Nations is complaining about obstacles preventing aid from entering Gaza and its distribution during the war, amid a “complete absence of law” in the t -Restriction.

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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) – Israel said it killed two senior members of the Palestinian Islamic Movement (Hamas) in an air strike that targeted their car in Jenin in the West Bank. the West that was owned on Saturday, and they said that they were involved in the killing. from Israel.

In a joint statement, the Internal Security Service and the Israeli army said the two Hamas members are Ahmed Abu Arra and Raafat Dawasi, and are from the Northwest Bank around Jenin.

In a statement, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, said they are mourning two of their fighters who were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted a car in Jenin.

The statement said, “The two martyrs, Raafat Dawwasi and Ahmed Abu Arra, died as a result of Israeli bombing that targeted their vehicle in Jenin. “

The Israeli statement said the two Hamas members were involved in planning a shooting attack last week in the Jordan Valley in the West Bank, where an Israeli named Yonatan Deutsch was killed.

Israeli authorities said Palestinian gunmen opened fire on a main road in the West Bank on August 11, killing one person and wounding another.

Later in the day, the Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement that its fighters in the West Bank “killed a soldier from zero range near the settlement of Mahula and returned to their bases until safe.”

Hamas said the operation came in response to an Israeli attack targeting a school housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City, which Civil Defense said resulted in at least 90 deaths.

Violence has been on the rise in the West Bank since the war in Gaza began last October, amid more raids by Israeli forces, violence by Jewish settlers, and attacks which Palestinians did in the streets.

Israeli settlers killed at least one Palestinian on Thursday in an attack on a village near the West Bank town of Qalqilya, which was condemned by the United States, Britain and France.

The violence in the West Bank comes at a time when a new round of talks is expected to begin aimed at ending the war in Gaza which has been going on for 10 months this week.

The Gaza war and the growing violence in the West Bank threaten to widen the scope of the conflict regionally to include Iran and its proxies in the region, such as the Hezbollah group in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen.