Two employees of the International Red Cross Committee were killed this Saturday, May 24, during a strike at their home in Khan Younès in the Gaza Strip, said the ICRC this Sunday on the social network X.
“We are devastated by the death of two beloved colleagues, Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal. Today, once again, we repeat our urgent attraction for the respect and protection of civilians in Gaza,” writes the organization.
“Ibrahim worked as a specialist in pollution of ammunition and Ahmas was a security guard at the Rafah Cross-Red Cross hospital,” said the ICRC message.
The two men were killed by a strike at their home in Khan Younès in the south of the Palestinian territory. “His murder highlights the intolerable number of civil deaths in Gaza,” writes the ICRC. On Friday, nine children from a couple of Palestinian doctors were killed in the same city in a posteriori fired the issue of a “exam” by the Israeli army, the civil defense of the Gaza Strip announced on Saturday.
Resumption of the offensive of mid -March
Breaking a two -month truce, Israel resumed its offensive in mid -March at the Gaza Strip and intensified its military operations on May 17, to destroy Hamas, free the last hostages and take control of the territory.
The attack against the Hamas commands in Israel on October 7, 2023 resulted in the death of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count of official data.
Of 251 people kidnapped that day, 57 remain retained in Gaza, at least 34 of which they died, according to Israeli authorities.
More than 53,939 Gazauis, mainly civil, were killed by the Israeli military retaliation campaign, according to data from the Hamas Government Ministry of Health for Gaza, considered reliable by the UN.
Source: BFM TV
