UN Palestinian relief agency says employee was first to be killed in the territory in more than a decade, but Israeli military says he was a ‘terrorist’It has gone 10am in Gaza and Tel Aviv. This is our latest live blog on the Israel-Gaza war and the wider Middle East crisis.The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said on Friday that one of its employees was killed during an Israeli operation in the occupied West Bank, where raids have escalated since last month.The Israeli military said it acted this week in Syria against targets, after Syrian state media reported Israeli airstrikes killed 18 people in western Syria and injured dozens more. The Israeli military targeted “several terrorists” in southern Syria, it said. A war monitor said Israeli forces helicoptered into Syria days ago and destroyed an underground missile production facility built under Iranian supervision, with two US media outlets also reporting the raid. The Israeli military declined to comment.Mourners will gather in south-west Turkey on Saturday for the funeral of a US-Turkish activist shot dead while protesting against Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank. The killing last week of Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, has sparked international condemnation and angered Turkey. Israel’s military said she was likely shot “indirectly and unintentionally” by its forces. Turkey said it would conduct its own investigation into her death. Eygi’s body, wrapped in the Turkish flag, arrived on Friday at its final resting place in the Aegean town of Didim – Eygi was a frequent visitor to the seaside resort – following a martyrs’ ceremony at Istanbul airport. Continue reading…
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Author : Amy Sedghi
Publish date : 2024-09-14 07:25:48
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Israel-Gaza war live: UN worker killed in West Bank during Israeli operation
