UN agency suspends Gaza movement after vehicle hit by Israeli military bullets

UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations World Food Programme temporarily suspended the movement of its employees across the Gaza Strip on Wednesday (Aug 28), saying at least 10 bullets struck one of its clearly marked vehicles as it approached an Israeli military checkpoint.
WFP said in a statement that a convoy of two armoured vehicles received “multiple clearances by Israeli authorities to approach” the Wadi Gaza bridge checkpoint on Tuesday evening. Bullets hit one of the vehicles, but no one in it was hurt.
The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment about the incident.
The UN Security Council will meet on Thursday, at the request of Britain and Switzerland, on the humanitarian situation in Gaza.
Britain’s UN mission posted on X: “The UN has warned aid operations and staff in Gaza are at risk, at a time when a vaccine campaign is urgently needed to stop a polio outbreak.”
The UN is preparing to vaccinate an estimated 640,000 children in Gaza, where the World Health Organization said a 10-month-old baby had been paralysed by the type 2 poliovirus, the first such case in the territory in 25 years.