Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 8th June. Palestinian medical and security sources have said in Friday that the Palestinian Mayor of central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, Iyad al-Mughari, was killed in an Israeli airstrike
The mayor was killed with a number of his family members, as an Israeli attack targeted a building in the camp on Thursday, news media reported, cited Palestinian security sources.
Medical sources said al-Mughari’s body was transferred to al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah city in central Gaza.
Al-Mughari, one of the cadres of the Hamas movement, was appointed mayor by acclamation, the sources noted.
The killing of al-Mughari came hours after the killing of 35 Palestinians in an Israeli attack on a school affiliated with the UNRWA which was housing displaced people in the Nuseirat camp, according to the UN agency and Gaza ministry officials.
Israel said Hamas and Islamic Jihad “terrorists” were embedded themselves inside the school, and a number of steps had been taken to reduce the risk of harming uninvolved civilians.
The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks in Gaza is up to 36,654, with 83,309 people injured, the Gaza health authorities updated on Thursday.
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