Aid worker who organised World Cup screenings in Gaza killed in Israeli strike

According to The Guardian, a Palestinian aid worker who had organised public screenings of World Cup matches in Gaza was killed in an Israeli missile strike on Tuesday evening, shortly before Egypt played Argentina. The Guardian identifies him as Mohamed al-Wahidi, an Egyptian, and reports that the missile struck his taxi. Two brothers, aged eight and ten, and another man who was in the street near the site of the attack were also killed.

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