Medical sources reported that WHO driver Majdi Aslan was killed and a WHO doctor was injured, along with several other Palestinians.
Published 6 April 2026
A World Health Organization (WHO) employee in Gaza was killed and several others were injured when Israeli forces fired on their vehicle, according to sources including an Al Jazeera correspondent.
WHO driver Majdi Aslan, 54, was killed on Monday. A doctor from the international organization and several other Palestinians were also injured in the incident in eastern Khan Yunis, according to sources at the enclave’s Nasser and Al-Aqsa hospitals.
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As the world’s attention focuses on the United States-Israel war over Iran, Israel is continuing its attacks on the Gaza Strip, which has seen almost daily Israeli shelling and attacks since a fragile ceasefire was reached in October, killing more than 700 Palestinians according to Gaza’s health ministry.
Monday’s incident occurred in an area close to the so-called Yellow Line in eastern Khan Yunis, Al Jazeera’s Hani Mahmoud reports.
Israeli forces fired “indiscriminately” at people and vehicles moving on Salah al-Din Street in the southern Gaza Strip, he said.
A commercial vehicle was transporting civilians between southern and central Gaza. Mahmood said, after this a car carrying WHO employees came.
“The driver was shot in the head and by the time he was taken to al-Aqsa hospital, he was declared dead,” the correspondent reported from Gaza City. He said seven or so other people were injured.
Translation: Qamar Majdi Mustafa Aslan (54 years old), resident of Burij camp, who passed away after being wounded in the crossfire targeting a World Health Organization vehicle on Salah al-Din Street, east of Khan Yunis city.
WHO did not immediately confirm whether the person killed was a staffer, but said in a statement emailed to Al Jazeera that “this morning, a serious security incident occurred in Gaza which is being reviewed by the relevant authorities”.
“As a result of this serious security incident, today’s medical evacuation from Gaza to Egypt via Rafah is halted with immediate effect until further notice,” the statement said.
WHO has been overseeing coordination between Egypt and Israel since the opening of the Rafah crossing, which has allowed a small number of injured Palestinians desperate for medical aid to seek treatment abroad.
However, Israel continues to limit the entry of humanitarian aid into the besieged region, as well as closing key crossings in the early days of the US-Israeli war over Iran.
On Monday, in the southern part of Khan Yunis, a Palestinian man with special needs died after being shot by Israeli soldiers.
To the north, a drone strike in Gaza City killed one person, Mahmoud said.
“The target was an electric bike… roaming in the area that was hit by the drone missiles. It killed a 36-year-old man… who was roaming around the displacement camps,” he said.
The correspondent said that a child was also injured in the attack and is now in a critical condition in the hospital.
Two Palestinians were also killed in Israeli drone strikes on the Yarmouk and Shujaiya neighborhoods, according to a medical source at al-Shifa hospital.
Sources in Gaza hospitals have reported the deaths of eight Palestinians in Israeli airstrikes outside Israeli-controlled areas since Sunday.
