GAZA, Jun 7 (NNN-WAFA) – The Palestinian mayor of central Gaza’s Nuseirat refugee camp, Iyad al-Mughari, was killed in an Israeli airstrike yesterday, Palestinian medical and security sources said.
Palestinian security sources said that, the mayor was killed, along with a number of his family members, as an Israeli attack targeted a building in the camp, where he and his family lived.
Medical sources said al-Mughari’s body was transferred to the 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 about 35 Palestinian women and children, in an Israeli attack on a school, affiliated with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which was housing displaced people in the Nuseirat camp.
Israel said, Hamas and Islamic Jihad “terrorists,” allegedly, embedded themselves inside the school, and a number of steps had been taken to reduce the risk of harming uninvolved Palestinian civilians.
The Palestinian death toll from the ongoing Israeli attacks in the enclave has risen to 36,654, with 83,309 Palestinians injured, updated the Gaza health authorities, yesterday.– NNN-WAFA
