Israeli shelling targets the Red Crescent headquarters in Khan Younis

The Palestinian Red Crescent announced today, Sunday, that an Israeli shelling targeted its headquarters in the city of Khan Younis in southern Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of one of its employees and injuring three others with varying degrees of wounds, in a new escalation targeting the humanitarian infrastructure in the sector.

In an official statement published by the organization on the "X" platform, it confirmed that "Israeli forces shelled the organization's headquarters in Khan Younis, causing a fire to break out on the first floor of the building, and casualties among humanitarian workers."

This attack comes amid a continuous escalation of Israeli airstrikes on various areas of the Gaza Strip, where civil defense teams announced that at least 32 Palestinians were killed on Saturday, including 14 people who fell to Israeli army fire near humanitarian aid distribution centers run by the "Gaza Humanitarian" organization.

In this context, the U.S. envoy to Gaza, Steve Witkoff, visited on Friday one of the U.S.-supported aid distribution centers to inspect relief efforts and deliver food to civilians in the besieged and devastated sector due to the ongoing war for nearly two years.

According to reports from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), at least 8 Palestinian Red Crescent paramedics, 6 civil defense personnel, and 1 paramedic from UNRWA have been killed since the military escalation began last March in attacks targeting areas in southern Gaza Strip.

After 22 months of war between Israel and Hamas, UN officials warn that Gaza is on the brink of widespread famine, as more than two million Palestinians rely almost entirely on food aid that arrives by truck or is dropped from the air.

Despite international calls to stop targeting humanitarian infrastructure, the Israeli army announced in a new statement that the war in Gaza "will continue relentlessly" unless Israeli prisoners are released, reflecting Tel Aviv's insistence on a military solution despite the increasing human cost on civilians.