Organization said Doctors without borders The International News Agency said that one of its employees’ relatives was killed and another was injured in an attack that targeted two cars belonging to doctors from the organization while evacuating its employees and their families yesterday, Saturday.
The international organization – which is based in France – added in a brief post on the “X” platform that the convoy was trying to evacuate 137 people from the organization’s Palestinian employees and their families from the Al-Shifa Medical Complex, west of the city. Gaza.
Two Doctors Without Borders cars were deliberately hit, killing one MSF staff’s family member and injuring another.
We are calling for an immediate ceasefire, which is the only way for corridors to be implemented in order to safely evacuate trapped civilians. #Gaza
— Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (@MSF_canada) November 19, 2023
The organization called for an immediate ceasefire, noting that it is the only way to provide a way to safely evacuate detained citizens.
According to the publication, “Doctors Without Borders condemns this deliberate attack on a convoy transporting its employees, which resulted in the death of one person and the injury of another,” without further details.
Doctors Without Borders condemns deliberate attack on a convoy transporting staff, resulting in one death and one injury. #Gazahttps://t.co/ye8AMtKXer
— Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (@MSF_canada) November 19, 2023
Yesterday, Saturday, the humanitarian organization wrote in a post on the
Earlier Saturday, the government media office in the Gaza Strip said that more than 500 patients and wounded, exhausted by hunger, thirst and pain, were forced by the Israeli occupation army to leave the Shifa Medical Complex, to meet their fate in the streets while they are in dire need of superior health and medical care, especially… The majority of them are in serious condition.
At dawn last Wednesday, the Israeli army stormed the Al-Shifa complex after besieging it for days, as it contains civilians who were displaced from their homes as a result of the continuous Israeli bombing in the area.
For the 44th day, the Israeli occupation is waging a devastating war on Gaza that has left 12,300 martyrs – including 5,000 children and 3,300 women – as well as more than 30,000 injured, 75% of whom are children and women, according to the latest official Palestinian census issued yesterday evening, Saturday.
