The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said on Friday that Israeli occupation forces opened fire on one of its aid convoys in the Gaza Strip.

UNRWA Director in Gaza, Thomas White, wrote on the X platform, “Israeli soldiers opened fire on an aid convoy as it was returning from northern Gaza via a route designated by the Israeli army. The commander of our international convoy and his team were not harmed, but one of the vehicles was damaged.”

He added, as reported by Agence France-Presse, "Aid workers should never be a target." A UNRWA source told Agence France-Presse that the incident occurred on Thursday afternoon.

In this context, the head of United Nations humanitarian operations, Martin Griffiths, criticized the conditions for delivering aid to Gaza, and wrote on the “X” platform that “convoys are targeted by gunfire, and there are delays at crossing points.”

He denounced the fact that humanitarian workers “are themselves displaced and being killed,” while also recalling that “traumatized and exhausted populations” are crowded into “an ever-smaller piece of land.”

He lamented that there were "three levels of inspection before trucks could enter. Confusion and long queues. A growing list of products prohibited from entering."

Griffiths stressed that "the fighting must stop," warning of "an impossible situation for the people of Gaza and for those who come to help them."