Attack On Palestinian Red Crescent Society's Gaza Hq Condemned By Global Health Organizations

The World Health Organization has led condemnation an onslaught connected nan Palestine Red Crescent Society's office successful Gaza that killed 1 personification and near respective others injured.

Accusing Israeli forces of “deliberately” targeting its office successful nan confederate metropolis of Khan Younis successful nan early hours of Sunday morning, nan PRCS — which provides emergency aesculapian services successful nan besieged enclave — said successful a connection that artillery struck nan precocious floors of its building, which it said was intelligibly marked pinch its emblem.

As workers tried to evacuate nan building, nan 2nd level was deed again, it said, followed by “direct shelling of nan crushed floor” arsenic rescue teams fought a occurrence caused by nan bombing.

The onslaught killed 1 of its unit members, identified arsenic Omar Isleem, and injured 2 different workers, on pinch a civilian who had tried to thief extinguish a consequent fire, nan PCRS said.

Photos published by nan PRCS appeared to show important destruction, pinch debris covering nan floor.

“The repeated strikes during removal and rescue operations intelligibly show that nan shelling was deliberate and systematic,” nan statement said.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society released pictures of nan aftermath of nan onslaught connected it's office successful Khan Younis. @PalestineRCS / via X

The Israel Defense Forces said it was “reviewing nan declare that a building belonging to nan Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) was damaged, and that uninvolved individuals successful nan Khan Yunis area were harmed arsenic a consequence of an IDF strike.”

Describing nan incident arsenic “appalling,” World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called for a ceasefire successful Gaza successful a connection connected X connected Sunday. "We request that attacks connected wellness and humanitarian workers must stop," he said.

In a abstracted statement, The International Committee of nan Red Cross said Sunday that it was “unacceptable that first responders successful Gaza — for illustration Omar and unit and volunteers of nan PRCS — spell to activity each time fearing they whitethorn not return to their families.”

Relatives of Palestinian Red Crescent worker mourn arsenic his assemblage is brought to Nasser Hospital successful Khan Younis, Gaza. Abed Rahim Khatib / Anadolu via Getty Images

The United Nations Human Rights Office successful nan Occupied Palestinian Territories also expressed “deep daze and outrage” complete nan “continued killings of emergency workers successful Gaza.”

“There must beryllium an independent investigation into each killings of civilians,” it said successful a abstracted station shared connected X connected Sunday, noting that “deliberate killings of humanitarian workers whitethorn magnitude to warfare crimes.”

The onslaught came amid a spiraling humanitarian crisis successful Gaza marked by growing starvation and rising deaths from malnutrition owed to Israel’s violative and crippling assistance restrictions.

The PRCS said connected Sunday that astatine slightest 51 of its unit members and volunteers, including 29 who it said were killed while performing humanitarian duties, were among those killed since Israel launched its violative successful Gaza pursuing nan Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023 attacks successful which immoderate 1,200 group were killed and astir 250 taken hostage, marking a deadly escalation successful a decadeslong conflict.

More than 60,800 group person been killed since nan warfare began, pinch hundreds killed complete nan span of days, according to nan wellness ministry successful Gaza.