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Israeli Strike Kills 4 Aid Workers in Gaza 'Safe Zone,' UK-based Group Says

12 July 2024, Palestinian Territories, Gaza: People inspect the damage UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) building complex in western Gaza City's Al-Sinaa neighborhood following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the area amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas group. Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
12 July 2024, Palestinian Territories, Gaza: People inspect the damage UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) building complex in western Gaza City's Al-Sinaa neighborhood following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the area amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas group. Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Israeli Strike Kills 4 Aid Workers in Gaza 'Safe Zone,' UK-based Group Says

12 July 2024, Palestinian Territories, Gaza: People inspect the damage UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) building complex in western Gaza City's Al-Sinaa neighborhood following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the area amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas group. Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
12 July 2024, Palestinian Territories, Gaza: People inspect the damage UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) building complex in western Gaza City's Al-Sinaa neighborhood following the withdrawal of Israeli troops from the area amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Hamas group. Photo: Hadi Daoud/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

A United Kingdom-based aid group said one of its senior employees in Gaza was killed Friday in an Israeli strike that hit its warehouse located in an Israeli-declared humanitarian safe zone. The strike also killed three staffers from other aid groups using the warehouse, the Al-Khair Foundation said in a statement.
The Israeli military said Husam Mansour, the Al-Khair Foundation member who was killed, was in fact a senior Hamas militant. Israel said he used his position with the humanitarian group to raise money for Hamas, The Associated Press reported.
After a two-week Israeli offensive in northern Gaza, dozens of bodies were collected throughout Gaza City’s Tel al-Hawa neighborhood and brought to Al-Ahli Hospital on Friday morning. Civil defense workers said they were still recovering dead and wounded from destroyed streets and buildings.
Israel launched the war in Gaza after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack in which Hamas stormed into southern Israel, killed some 1,200 people — mostly civilians — and abducted about 250. Since then, Israeli ground offensives and bombardments have killed more than 38,300 people in Gaza, according to the territory’s Health Ministry. It does not distinguish between combatants and civilians in its count.
Most of Gaza’s 2.3 million people are crammed into squalid tent camps in central and southern Gaza. Israeli restrictions, fighting and the breakdown of law and order have limited humanitarian aid efforts, causing widespread hunger and sparking fears of famine. The top United Nations court has ordered Israel to take steps to protect Palestinians as it examines genocide allegations against Israeli leaders. Israel denies the charge.

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Erdogan Vows ‘Radical’ Steps to Eliminate Kurdish YPG Forces in Syria

Erdogan speaks at the eighth Ordinary Provincial Congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK). (Turkish presidency)
Erdogan speaks at the eighth Ordinary Provincial Congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK). (Turkish presidency)
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Erdogan Vows ‘Radical’ Steps to Eliminate Kurdish YPG Forces in Syria

Erdogan speaks at the eighth Ordinary Provincial Congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK). (Turkish presidency)
Erdogan speaks at the eighth Ordinary Provincial Congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK). (Turkish presidency)

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan stressed on Saturday that his country will soon take “radical” steps to eliminate forces linked to the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), the military backbone of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). in Syria.

Erdogan said Türkiye will show no tolerance for the YPG, which is an extension of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a group designated as a terrorist by Ankara.

The YPG occupies a third of Syria, he charged.

Turkish forces have recently expanded their attacks on SDF positions in northeast Syria amid ongoing clashes between the two sides on the frontline of Tishreen dam in the eastern countryside of Aleppo.

During remarks at the eighth Ordinary Provincial Congress of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AK) in the southern province of Mersin, Erdogan said his country has provided and will continue to provide all necessary support to the Syrian people.

“Our goal is to eradicate all terrorist organizations in Syria, either smoothly or by force,” he said.

The president stressed that his country is present in Syria and other regions of the world and is following developments closely, based on a strategic vision that seeks to achieve its interest.

Ankara supports New Syrian administration

Erdogan added that by eliminating terrorists in Syria, Türkiye would ensure its security and remove the obstacles that stand in the way of the territorial integrity of Syria, its political unity and internal peace.

“Türkiye cannot feel completely secure as long as there are separatist terrorists armed in Syria,” he declared.

Moreover, Erdogan said Ankara will not pressure any Syrian refugee to return back home.

Ankara is exerting efforts to provide support to the new administration in Damascus, and is therefore “determined not to leave our Syrian brothers alone in rebuilding state institutions and the country,” he remarked.

The Turkish government will provide all necessary facilitations for Syrians wishing to return to their country, he vowed.

Clashes in eastern Aleppo

Meanwhile, Turkish forces escalated their strikes on the strategic Tishreen dam and several areas in Ain Al-Arab (Kobani) in eastern Aleppo.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Saturday that three civilians were killed and 14 others sustained various injuries.

This came following renewed strikes by Turkish drones on an anti-Türkiye protest near Tishreen dam in the Manbij countryside in eastern Aleppo.

Similarly, it noted, Turkish fighter jets attacked the vicinity of Qarh Qouzaq bridge in the Aleppo countryside.

Turkish fighter jets also attacked a school in Al-Jadah village and a house in Deikan village in the Ain Al-Arab countryside, the Observatory said, adding that no casualties were reported.