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UN humanitarian worker describes suffering she witnessed in Gaza

Speaking to journalists in Geneva following a three-month stint in the besieged territory, Yasmina Guerda of the UN humanitarian agency OCHA described children who lost limbs in Israel’s attack on Nuseirat refugee camp earlier this month that killed at least 274 people and injured more than 700.

“Many of whom reminded me of my own two little toddlers. They were staring into the void, too shell-shocked to produce a sound or a tear,” she said.

For Guerda, there are no “living conditions” in the Gaza Strip. “What they have … are survival conditions, and barely. They are holding on by a thread.”

She said aid workers were trying to “quantify the suffering with figures”, looking at the total number of displaced people, the litres of water they get per day, or the truckloads of aid that make it across the border. “But it doesn’t matter,” she said. “Those numbers, they’re never near enough … [for] a population that has lost nearly everything.”

The fighting has displaced much of Gaza’s 2.4 million population – some multiple times – but with little hope of finding safety. “There are no safe centimetres left in Gaza,” Guerda said.


Doctors Without Borders condemn killing of colleague in Gaza City

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) has condemned the killing of their colleague Fadi al-Wadiya in an attack this morning in Gaza City.

“The attack killed Fadi, along with 5 other people including 3 children, while he was cycling to work, near the MSF clinic where he was providing care,” MSF said on X. Al-Wadiya was 33 years old, the group added, and is the sixth of its workers to be killed in Gaza since October 7, when the war in Gaza began.

“Killing a healthcare worker while on his way to provide vital medical care to wounded victims of the endless massacres across Gaza is beyond shocking; it’s cynical and abhorrent,” said Caroline Seguin, MSF’s operations manager for Palestine.

Red Crescent inspects damaged al-Quds Hospital in Gaza City

A video shared by the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) shows one of its teams inspecting the PRCS-affiliated hospital “to assess the damage caused when occupation forces stormed the hospital, burning and destroying its contents over seven months ago”.

“The team is currently developing a comprehensive plan to utilise the remaining equipment and devices to reactivate the hospital and enable it to provide medical services to the injured and patients,” the PRCS said in a post on X.