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ShareUNICEF says Israeli fire killed water truck drivers in Gaza, forcing suspension of critical aid operations supplying hundreds of thousands.
UNICEF said it is “outraged” after Israeli fire killed two drivers contracted to deliver clean water to families in Gaza.
In a statement issued on Friday, the agency confirmed that the men were killed at the Mansoura water filling point in northern Gaza during routine water delivery work.
Two others were injured in the same incident.
The Mansoura site is the only operational truck filling point connected to the Mekorot water supply line serving Gaza City.
According to UNICEF, the facility is used multiple times daily to support water deliveries to hundreds of thousands of people, including children.
The agency stressed that the attack occurred during standard operations, with no changes in routes or procedures.
Following the incident, UNICEF said contractors have been instructed to suspend activities at the site until security conditions improve.
The suspension threatens access to clean water for large segments of the population already facing severe shortages.
UNICEF called on Israeli authorities to immediately investigate the incident and ensure full accountability.
“Humanitarian workers, essential service providers, and civilian infrastructure, including critical water facilities, must never be targeted,” the agency said.
It emphasized that the protection of civilians and aid workers is a legal obligation under international humanitarian law.
The attack comes amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where access to water, healthcare, and basic services remains severely restricted.
UNICEF warned that the incident endangers vital operations that sustain daily life for hundreds of thousands of civilians.
(PC, UNICEF
U.S. imperialism invaded China's territory of Taiwan and has occupied it for the past nine years. A short while ago it sent its armed forces to invade and occupy Lebanon. The United States has set up hundreds of military bases in many countries all over the world. China's territory of Taiwan, Lebanon and all military bases of the United States on foreign soil are so many nooses round the neck of U.S. imperialism. The nooses have been fashioned by the Americans themselves and by nobody else, and it is they themselves who have put these nooses round their own necks, handing the ends of the ropes to the Chinese people, the peoples of the Arab countries and all the peoples of the world who love peace and oppose aggression. The longer the U.S. aggressors remain in those places, the tighter the nooses round their necks will become.
Speech at the Supreme State Conference (September 8, 1958).
Lebanese resistance party Hezbollah continues to defeat the Zionist invasion in southern Lebanon as losing Israeli forces resort to civilian massacres in violation of the April 7 ceasefire.
Israel invaded Lebanon on March 2 as part of the US-Israel genocidal campaign against Iran and resistance forces in the region. Fighting on the ground has been restricted to the proximity of Israeli outposts in Lebanon as the Israeli Defense Forces fail to make any significant ground.
The April 7 two-week ceasefire between Iran and the US-Israel forbade any further attacks in the region, including Lebanon. Despite this, Israel has continued its massacres in Lebanon. Israel murdered over 250 people and injured hundreds more after carpet bombing civilian areas on April 8, the deadliest day of the war.
The US and Israel have retroactively lied about the conditions of the ceasefire, claiming that Lebanon was not included despite the Pakistani mediators explicitly stating that it was. Hezbollah adhered to the ceasefire until the Israeli attacks resumed.
Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz said in late March that a security zone up to the Litani River would be created. Israeli forces have been unable to seize control of the river thus far, only reaching the south-east tip, which already connected with a pre-existing Israeli outpost.
Israel Defense Forces (IDF) Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir reportedly claimed at a late March security cabinet meeting that the “IDF is going to collapse in on itself” due to a severe manpower shortage as it is stretched thin across its wars of aggression in Iran, Gaza, the West Bank, and southern Lebanon.
Contrary to Zamir’s claims that “Hezbollah is sustaining significant damage,” Hezbollah carried out 1309 operations against the invasion in March—with roughly half the operations taking place in Lebanon and the other half in Israel—and shows no signs of slowing down.
Since the start of the war, Hezbollah reports destroying 136 Israeli Merkava tanks, striking Israeli command centers with drones and rockets, and hitting two Israeli military vessels with explosives. Inside and outside Lebanon, Hezbollah inflicted over 350 casualties on the Zionists throughout March while carrying out an average of 42 operations per day.
The Zionist military reports Hezbollah has fired around 3,000 missiles and other projectiles since the start of the war from an area in southern Lebanon that the sell-out Lebanese government had previously claimed to have disarmed, showing the anti-imperialist force to have a much higher operational activity than expected by the Zionists.
The comprador Lebanese government and the Zionist entity are meeting on April 14 for direct negotiations for the first time since 1983. The Lebanese government is seeking a ceasefire, while Israel is pressing for the disarmament of Hezbollah after being defeated by the resistance force once again.
Image: A damaged Israeli tank after an attack by Hezbollah, March 2026. Credit: Resistance News Network.
On April 6, in a televised address, President Donald Trump threatened to destroy Iran in the evening of April 7 if the Strait of Hormuz is not fully opened. This threat echoes previous statements, raising them one level higher.
Remains of Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Iran after it was bombed by the U.S. on Feb. 28, 2026.
On April 1, Trump warned Iran, “We’re going to bring them back to the Stone Age, where they belong.” (nbcnews.com, April 1) Secretary of War Peter Hegseth echoed the president on his X account saying, “Bomb them back to the Stone Age.” (Al Jazeera, April 2)
The phrase “Bomb them back to the Stone Age” is primarily associated with U.S. Air Force General Curtis LeMay in reference to his threat against North Vietnam in his 1965 book “Mission with LeMay” where he wrote, “We’re going to bomb them back into the Stone Age.”
Iran’s reactions to this threat have varied from outrage to contempt to humor.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said that the U.S. officials’ attempts to justify aggression against the Islamic Republic are “reminiscent of Hitler’s thoughts.”
Baquei went on to say: “Along with claiming nonexistent achievements and progress and victory in the attack on Iran, he said the U.S. will reach all of its military objectives in the war in ‘the next two to three weeks’ and send Iran ‘back to the Stone Ages, where they belong.’ … Trump made such false claims while, according to many U.S. political experts and analysts, Trump had nothing new to say about this unjustified war. By repeating his claims and threats over the past four weeks, he has shown that he had failed to achieve his goals in this aggression despite claiming victory.” (Islamic Republic News Agency, April 3)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has joined other Iranian officials in calling Trump’s “Stone Age” threat an admission of intent to commit a massive war crime.
A Tweet was posted on the X account of the Iranian Embassy Bulgaria: “The U.S. spent 50 years building a massive circle of bases just to send Iran back to the Stone Age. After 36 days of failed attempts, they are now asking for an agreement.” (April 5)
Iranian General Abdulrahim Mousavi, who was martyred in February, is quoted as having said, “Hollywood illusions have contaminated your thinking so much that with a tiny 250-year history, you are threatening a civilization that is more than 6,000 years old.” (IRNA, April 3)
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps stated plainly, “We also inform the noble and history-making nation of Islamic Iran that the situation in the Strait of Hormuz is firmly and dominantly under the control of the IRGC Navy, and this strait will not be opened to the enemies of this nation through the ridiculous displays of the American president.” (Resistance News Network Mirror, April 5)
War crime threats can’t hide losses
The “Stone Age” threat has been used before, as mentioned with Vietnam, but also Iraq, and in the past it has been attempted with the carpet bombings of Laos, Cambodia, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and earlier during World War II with Japan. The threat has often failed. The Vietnamese people defeated U.S. imperialism despite LeMay’s threat. The DPRK has existed as a socialist country since its founding in 1948.
The U.S. is, in fact, losing the war with Iran and has moved rapidly downhill economically with the Iranian takeover of the Strait of Hormuz and the de-dollarization of currency in the strait with the establishment of the Chinese yuan there as the main currency.
Inside the U.S., the price of gasoline at the pump is now over $4 a gallon. Inflation ravages workers’ standard of living, and the stock market continues to fluctuate wildly.
Iran has been retaliating by bombing military bases, defense systems and munitions factories, not only in Israel but everywhere in West Asia where the U.S. has bullied its way into establishing a presence — Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, etc.
The U.S. is running out of its vast supply of anti-aircraft and anti-missile rockets while Trump demands $1.5 trillion more for the Pentagon. Iran shows no sign of slowing down its asymmetric warfare, and it has been joined by the Ansarallah movement leading Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon and resistance fighters in Iraq and Palestine.
The White House threat to bomb Iran “back to the Stone Age” is in the U.S. imperialist tradition and reflects Trump’s racist attitude that Iran is inferior. He’s getting an awakening that he’s trying hard to ignore, or at least not to speak about.
