Israeli strike kills World Cup screening organizer in Gaza just before kickoff
The strike hit a car carrying a Gaza aid official and a driver, while the military said it was targeting a Hamas militant and reviewing whether the driver was the intended target.
- On Tuesday, an Israeli strike in Gaza City's Sabra neighborhood killed four people, including Egyptian Committee public relations director Mohamed al-Wahidi and two brothers, Hamza and Fari al-Deri, shortly before an Egypt-Argentina World Cup match.
- Under Team Egypt coach Hossam Hassan, the Egyptian Committee's initiative to broadcast soccer matches gained popularity as part of their relief efforts for Palestinians in Gaza.
- Israeli military officials stated the strike targeted a militant, though Shifa Hospital director Dr. Mohamed Abu Selmiya noted that driver Ahmed Daghmush had no known militant affiliations.
- Since the truce took effect in October, at least 1,027 people, including 258 children, have been killed; the Gaza Health Ministry reports total Palestinian deaths from the Israel-Hamas war at 73,098.
- During a Monday briefing, Hassan urged athletes and media officers worldwide to advocate for Palestinians, stating, "Let the Palestinian people be, let them exist, let them live a life of their own.
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The official was traveling in a taxi when the attack was recorded, in full transmission of the match between Argentina and Egypt by the World Cup.
Mohammad al-Waheidi had managed, for a few hours, to give way to the shouts of a goal in the 2026 World Cup, but the giant screens that for days gathered thousands of Gazans to forget the war for a moment were silent when news came that the official who organized the screenings died in an Israeli attack. The inhabitants of the Gaza Strip came out en masse to pay homage to the Palestinian man, a member of a humanitarian organization in Egypt. The…
According to his son, Mohammed al-Wahidi was once tortured by Hamas. Finally, the humanitarian aid worker ensured that the suffering people in Gaza could watch the World Cup. Now he was killed in an Israeli attack.
The people of Gaza gathered in large numbers to pay tribute to a senior Palestinian official of the main Egyptian humanitarian organization, who had set up World Cup projections in the devastated enclave and who was killed on Tuesday by an Israeli strike targeting the taxi in which he was in.
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