Alwaght- The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) said one of its aid warehouses in the Gaza Strip was hit by Israeli bombing on Wednesday, with scores of people wounded.
"We can confirm that an UNRWA warehouse/distribution centre in Rafah (southern Gaza) has been hit," agency spokeswoman Juliette Touma told AFP, adding there were "scores injured".
"We do not yet have more information on what exactly happened nor the number of UNRWA staff impacted," she said.
"UNRWA uses this facility to distribute much-needed food and other lifesaving items to displaced people in southern Gaza."
The Gaza health ministry said four people were killed in the bombing of the warehouse.
An AFP photographer saw victims of the incident arriving at Al-Najjar hospital in Rafah, at least one of whom was identified by other people at the hospital as a UN employee.
Wednesday's incident comes amid mounting concern about worsening humanitarian conditions in Gaza, where Israel has carried out brutal military operations since October 7.
As of March 4, a total of 162 UNRWA employees had been killed since the beginning of the Israel-Hamas war.
Gaza's dire food shortages after more than five months of war have resulted in 27 deaths from malnutrition and dehydration, most of them children, the ministry says.
Israeli regime has been denying food and medicine to Gaza since the war began, and only inadequate convoys of food were allowed to enter central Gaza, where the Israeli forces just in one case fired at starving people seeking food from an aid convoy, killing over 100.
The strike on UN aid agency comes as the Times of Israel on Tuesday reported it learned that the Israeli military had decided it will work to dismantle the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip and replace it with an alternative body.
Since the start of the war, UNRWA has accused Israel of intentionally targeting civilian infrastructure, including its schools and its first responder stations.
Israel claims it has started working with other groups in Gaza, such as the UN World Food Programmer, to replace UNRWA.
Israeli government alleged it found evidence that UNRWA was cooperating with Gaza government against Tel Aviv, an allegation the aid agency rejected, saying that it remained within the framework of the plan the UN defined for it.
