Aid worker and baby injured in Israeli airstrikes on Gaza

Palestinians inspect the rubble of a building destroyed in an Israeli airstrike in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip

AN AID worker and their baby son have been injured in Israeli strikes on Gaza City.

Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP) said one of its staff members and her child were injured on Tuesday evening after Israeli forces struck a residential building adjacent to her home.

Both the aid worker and her son sustained minor injuries and are now in a stable condition, MAP confirmed.

The attack came at the same time as other Israeli airstrikes across the city which targeted residential apartments and other civilian sites, reportedly killing six people and injuring several others.

Israel said its airstrikes targeted and killed the new leader of Hamas's military wing, less than two weeks after it killed his predecessor.

The Israeli strikes took place on the eve of Eid al-Adha, a major Muslim holiday.

Palestinians offer Eid al-Adha prayers beside the ruins of a mosque destroyed by Israeli bombardment, in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, on Wednesday (Image: AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)

MAP, a British charity operating in Gaza which helps supply much-needed medical supplies to hospitals, condemned the attack and said it shows how Israel's "war on Gaza has not ended".

Since the so-called ceasefire came into effect in October last year, the Israeli military has killed at least 906 Palestinians in Gaza and injured more than 2600, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.

Israel's onslaught of Gaza – which the UN has determined amounts to genocide – has killed more than 72,700 Palestinians since October 2023, according to figures published by the UN.

This includes more than 1700 healthcare workers, MAP said.

Mai Elawawda, MAP’s communications officer in Gaza, said: “These attacks come at a time that should have been marked by Eid celebrations, yet instead they are overshadowed by ongoing attacks during the so-called 'ceasefire'.

"This includes repeated 'pre-strike warnings' and forced evacuation orders targeting almost entire residential blocks."

Elawawda said dozens of families are being "forced to flee their homes under extreme fear, only for these areas to be left in widespread destruction".

She added: “This pattern has continued throughout the past week, once again underscoring a stark reality: The war on Gaza has not ended.”