A US-based aid group said Friday an “Israeli” strike killed four people accompanying its convoy in Gaza the day before, while the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) claimed it had struck armed assailants.

"An Israeli air strike yesterday killed four Palestinians in the lead vehicle of an Anera aid convoy carrying food and fuel to the Emirati Red Crescent Hospital," aid group Anera said in a statement.

The IOF claimed that the strike occurred after "a number of armed assailants seized control of the vehicle."