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79 Palestinian aid workers killed in Israeli strikes in Gaza Strip: Civil Defense

Monday, 15 July 2024 2:35 PM [ Last Update: Monday, 15 July 2024 2:48 PM ]

People check an ambulance after an Israeli warplane attacked ambulances at a gate of the Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza City, on November 3, 2023. (Photo by Xinhua news agency)

The Gaza Civil Defense says it has lost dozens of its employees ever since the Israeli military launched its relentless aerial and ground offensives across the besieged coastal terror in early October last year.

In a statement released on Monday, the organization put the number of fallen aid workers at 79, noting that the figure comes after one of its members succumbed to severe injuries sustained during the Israeli strike on a designated humanitarian safe zone at the al-Mawasi camp in southern Gaza, killing at least 90 Palestinians and wounding 300 others.

The fatality brings to three the number of aid workers killed in the attack, which was the deadliest in Gaza for weeks, according to the Gaza Civil Defense.

In Mawasi attack, Israel committed ‘complex crime’: Rights monitor

The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor has said there was nothing new in the deadly attack of July 13.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7 after Palestinian resistance groups carried out a surprise retaliatory operation into the occupied territories.

Concomitantly with the war, the regime has been enforcing a near-total siege on the coastal territory, which has reduced the flow of foodstuffs, medicine, electricity, and water into the Palestinian territory into a trickle.

So far during the military onslaught, the regime has killed at least 38,664 Gazans, most of them women, children, and adolescents. Another 89,097 Palestinians have sustained injuries as well.

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