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Aid ship slowly heads for Gaza as calls for assistance grow

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first boat carrying 200 tonnes of food aid was slowly making its  way into the Gaza Strip on Thursday as efforts to provide additional humanitarian help to the Israeli-occupied Palestinian enclave intensified. Although Israel later claimed Hamas fighter was killed in the rocket strike, the primary UN humanitarian organisation in Gaza  claimed an employee was killed in an Israeli strike that occurred day earlier that targeted one of its facilities in the southern city of  Rafah. In the wake of over five months of fighting, starvation is about to  strike 2.4 million people in the region, and donor countries, relief organisations, and nonprofits are working tirelessly to get food there. After bombing UN food aid shipment to Gaza, the Israeli army  started shooting at civilians there.

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