Mohammed Fawaz Al-Wahidi, director of the Egyptian Committee in Gaza City, was killed on Tuesday after an Israeli airstrike targeted his vehicle in central Gaza City, according to Palestinian sources.
Witnesses said an Israeli drone fired a missile at Al-Wahidi’s vehicle near Al-Jazeera Club in the city center. The strike killed Al-Wahidi, 57, and injured several other people who were with him.
His body was taken to Al-Ahli Arab Hospital, where hundreds of mourners from Gaza City’s Al-Sabra neighbourhood gathered to pay their respects before his funeral.
Local officials, community leaders and residents expressed condolences, highlighting Al-Wahidi’s role in supervising and coordinating humanitarian and development projects implemented by the Egyptian Committee in Gaza.
According to Palestinian sources, Al-Wahidi had been involved for years in efforts to facilitate humanitarian assistance and infrastructure projects aimed at alleviating conditions in the Gaza Strip.
The attack comes in the context of a continuous and systematic targeting of workers in the humanitarian, relief and development sectors in the Gaza Strip, where Israel has previously assassinated dozens of employees of local, Arab and international institutions since the beginning of the genocide.
