Israel kills Gaza elder tasked with broadcasting Egypt-Argentina game

Israel kills Gaza elder tasked with broadcasting Egypt-Argentina game Submitted by Ayse Betul on Wed, 07/08/2026 - 08:42 The strike came just hours before Mohamed Fawaz al-Wahidi's team was scheduled to host a public screening of the World Cup match in Gaza City Wahidi was attending a neighbourhood reconciliation meeting just before the Israeli strike hit the vehicle he was in (X) Off An Israeli strike on Tuesday killed Mohamed Fawaz al-Wahidi, the public relations director for the Egyptian Relief Committee in Gaza. The attack, which targeted a civilian vehicle in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, killed two others alongside Wahidi, including a child, and left several people wounded, according to reports by the Palestinian Information Center and Arabi Post. It came just hours before a World Cup match between Egypt and Argentina, which Wahidi's committee had been planning to screen publicly in Gaza City.