Around 150 tonnes of UK aid, including more than 13,000 blankets and 840 family-sized tents, has entered the besieged enclave today, the Foreign Office says, as countries embark on a major humanitarian push to get supplies to starving Palestinians.
The Palestinian Football Association has said a former national team member has been killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip.
Mohammed Barakat, known affectionately as 'the lion', was killed in a strike on a residential building in the southern city of Khan Younis on Monday, the federation said.The 39-year-old had played for the national team as well as a number of clubs in Gaza, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.He began his professional career in 2015 with Shabab Khanyounis, where he became the first player in Gaza to score 100 goals with a single team.
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