{"id":398881,"date":"2026-04-18T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/398881\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:32:08","slug":"unicef-outraged-after-israeli-forces-kill-water-truck-drivers-in-gaza-gaza-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/398881\/","title":{"rendered":"UNICEF \u2018outraged\u2019 after Israeli forces kill water truck drivers in Gaza | Gaza News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article__subhead\">UN Children\u2019s Fund calls on Israeli authorities to investigate and \u2018ensure full accountability\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"avatar\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/author\/al_jazeera_staff_150119130629458\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776526328_916_2017-06-08T131939Z_1189275883_RC11B0FE7F20_RTRMADP_3_GULF-QATAR-JAZEERA-1714943623.jpg\"   aria-hidden=\"true\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published On 18 Apr 202618 Apr 2026<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Children\u2019s Fund says it is \u201coutraged\u201d after Israel killed two drivers it had contracted to deliver clean water to families in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>UNICEF said in a \u2060statement the incident occurred during routine water trucking on Friday morning at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza, which supplies Gaza City. Two other people \u200cwere wounded in the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Recommended Stories list of 3 itemsend of list<\/p>\n<p>The agency said it had suspended activities at the site and called on Israeli authorities to investigate and \u201censure full accountability\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHumanitarian workers, essential service providers, and civilian infrastructure, including critical water facilities, must never be targeted,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.org\/press-releases\/statement-unicef-killing-two-water-truck-drivers-gaza-strip-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">said<\/a> that \u201cthe protection of civilians and those delivering life-saving assistance is an obligation under international humanitarian law\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>More than 750 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli forces since the US- and Qatar-brokered \u201cceasefire\u201d in Gaza took effect last October, according to Palestinian health authorities.<\/p>\n<p>More than 72,000 people have been killed since Israel launched its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza on October 7, 2023, following a Hamas-led attack on southern Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in the occupied West Bank, a Palestinian man was shot and killed by Israeli forces in Khirbet Salama, the official Palestinian news agency WAFA reported.<\/p>\n<p>Muhammad Ahmad Suwaiti, 25, was pronounced dead at the scene, WAFA said.<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s military said a person carrying a knife in the illegal settlement of Negohot was killed. It did not say who was responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Using the biblical term for the West Bank, the Israeli military said in a statement that \u201ca terrorist who infiltrated the community of Negohot in Judea and Samaria was identified and eliminated in a rapid response\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Israeli forces and settlers have killed more than 1,060 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UN Children\u2019s Fund calls on Israeli authorities to investigate and \u2018ensure full accountability\u2019. Published On 18 Apr 202618&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50,85,46,44,43,45,4497],"class_list":{"0":"post-398881","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-gaza","9":"tag-il","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-israel-palestine-conflict","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-occupied-west-bank","14":"tag-united-nations"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}