British bomb disposal expert injured in Gaza

A British weaponry disposal adept has been injured successful an onslaught connected a UN installation successful the Gaza Strip, the foundation helium works for has said.

The 51-year-old, who was not named, was 1 of 5 radical injured successful an detonation that besides killed a UN idiosyncratic astatine the installation successful Deir al-Balah connected Wednesday morning, the Mines Advisory Group said.

Farhan Haq, lawman spokesperson for the UN caput general, told BBC Newshour a afloat probe into the incidental would beryllium needed.

The Israeli subject has denied reports it targeted the UN compound and has said the detonation was not caused by Israeli fire.

Israel said earlier it was resuming warring successful Gaza pursuing a two-month ceasefire - launching a question of strikes that killed much than 400 people, according to the Palestinian territory's Hamas-run wellness ministry.

The injured Briton is an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) adept who works for the Manchester-based excavation clearance charity.

The charity's main executive, Darren Cormack, said the antheral had been conducting an explosive hazards appraisal astatine a UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) gathering astatine the clip of the incident.

He was initially taken to infirmary successful Gaza for attraction and has since been moved to a infirmary successful Israel, Mr Cormack said.

"The UN has confirmed that today's incidental did not hap successful the people of mean EOD operations and resulted from ordnance being fired astatine oregon dropped connected the gathering successful which the squad was working," helium added.

"It is shocking that a humanitarian installation should beryllium taxable to attacks of this quality and that humanitarian workers are being killed and injured successful the enactment of duty," helium said. "Attacks against humanitarian premises are a breach of planetary law."

Israeli overseas ministry spokesperson Oren Marmorstein wrote connected X: "The circumstances of the incidental are being investigated.

"We stress that the archetypal introspection recovered nary transportation to IDF enactment whatsoever."

Gaza's wellness ministry blamed an Israeli onslaught for the attack.

The UN's Farhan Haq told the BBC: "We are making it wide that each subject operations person to beryllium conducted successful a mode that ensures that each civilians are respected and protected."

The caput of the UNOPS, Jorge Moreira da Silva, said helium believed the detonation was "not an accident", adding that the concern successful Gaza was "unconscionable".

The warfare successful Gaza was triggered erstwhile Hamas attacked Israel connected 7 October 2023, sidesplitting astir 1,200 radical and taking 251 backmost to Gaza arsenic captives.

Israel responded with a monolithic subject offensive, which has killed much than 48,500 Palestinians, Gaza's Hamas-run wellness ministry says, and caused immense demolition to homes and infrastructure.

The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, called for "restraint" during a telephone speech with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman connected Wednesday night.

"The Prime Minister underscored that helium is profoundly acrophobic by the instrumentality to warring and urged for Israeli restraint," a Downing Street spokesperson said.