Israeli Forces Kill Two World Health Organization Workers in Khan Younis

The death toll from the Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to 72,302 martyrs and 172,090 wounded, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, which said seven Palestinian martyrs were transferred to hospitals in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours along with 17 wounded.

The ministry said a number of victims are still under rubble and in the streets because ambulance crews and civil defense teams are unable to reach them, and it added that since the ceasefire decision took effect on October 11, 2025, the total number of martyrs from Israeli violations reached 723 alongside 1,990 wounded and 759 bodies of the missing were recovered from under the rubble.

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Early yesterday, two civilians working for the World Health Organization were shot by Israeli occupation forces while their vehicle was passing along Salah al-Din Road in the al-Qarara area of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip.

Israeli gunboats fired shells toward the coast of Gaza City, and artillery shelling targeted areas east of Khan Younis, while the same source said Israeli forces prevented a new batch of humanitarian cases from leaving or others from returning through the Rafah border crossing.

On the political front, informed sources said an integrated plan to disarm the Gaza Strip prepared by former UN envoy Nikolai Miladinov was handed to Hamas, with the path beginning with a comprehensive halt to military operations accompanied by urgent humanitarian measures.

In the occupied West Bank, BBC reported that 17-year-old Yazen Alhasnat in Bethlehem sat beside his mother after being released the previous night, almost five months after he was arrested during a 4 a.m. Israeli military raid.

The BBC said Yazen had been placed in administrative detention, a policy that allows the Israeli state to imprison people indefinitely without indictment and without presenting evidence against them, and he told the outlet that "they had a secret file and that they would not tell him what it contained."

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The BBC also said that in the weeks after October 7, the number of administrative detainees—already 1,300, the highest in 30 years—rose to over 2,800, and it reported that when Yazen was released his family was ordered not to celebrate publicly and not to speak to the media.

Maurice Hirsch, former head of military prosecutions for the West Bank from 2013 to 2016, told the BBC that Israel not only respects international law but far exceeds it by allowing detainees to appeal and ensuring their detention is reviewed every six months.

Human rights groups, the BBC said, argue that detainees cannot effectively defend themselves or appeal because they do not have access to the evidence held against them, and it quoted Jessica Montell, executive director of HaMoked, saying administrative detention should be a rare exception.

Human Rights Watch said the Israeli army and the Border Police kill Palestinian children in a context where accountability is almost non-existent, and it warned that Israeli forces should end the systematic and illegal use of lethal force against Palestinians, including children.

HRW said that by August 22, Israeli forces had killed at least 34 Palestinian children in the West Bank, and it quoted Bill Van Esveld, deputy director of the Children’s Rights Division at Human Rights Watch, saying "Unless Israel's allies, particularly the United States, press this country to change course, Palestinian children will continue to be killed."

In a separate account from WAFA Agency, Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday assaulted two minors in al-Khader town south of Bethlehem, where a convoy of army vehicles stormed the town and soldiers briefly held and brutally assaulted two minors.

WAFA said the soldiers parked a vehicle across the road in the town to block access and disrupted a funeral procession, attacking mourners, and it dated the incident to May 27, 2026.

Across the same broader conflict reporting, BBC described administrative detention as a system that can extend indefinitely by a military tribunal, while HRW focused on lethal force against children and WAFA reported assaults on minors near Bethlehem.