Israeli strike on Gaza ‘safe-zone’ damages MSF clinic
Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym, MSF, says an Israeli air attack that hit the Israeli-designated “safe zone” of al-Mawasi damaged the group’s medical clinic in the area.
“The blast was huge. We didn’t receive an official evacuation order from Israeli forces, we were notified by the residents,” Myriam, an MSF coordinator, said in a post on X.
“Both staff and patients fled the clinic. We later found the facility with equipment destroyed, and shrapnel damaged the desalination plant,” she added.
MSF condemned Israel’s use of heavy weapons in zones it had designed safe, saying the attack is “further proof of the blatant disregard for Palestinian lives and humanitarian law”.
Israeli bomb leaves large crater in Gaza’s al-Mawasi ‘safe zone’
Palestinians gather around a crater, formed following an Israeli attack on the al-Mawasi area, where thousands of Palestinians are living in makeshift tents, in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza on Wednesday
A number of Israeli attacks have been reported in the so-called safe zone in the past 48-hours, including an attack that killed eight people
Al Jazeera Arabic’s correspondent reported that people were injured in an attack on a tent, while Doctors Without Borders, or MSF, said its clinic in the encampment was damaged by a huge ‘blast’
Israeli forces killed 20 aid workers in Gaza in the past month
Israeli air attacks on Gaza have killed at least 20 aid workers in the period between October 10 and November 13, according to charity organisations working in the enclave.
“Staff were killed in their homes, in displacement camps and while delivering life-saving aid,” the groups said in a new report. “Many aid workers lost close family members and relatives.”
These include four engineers and workers with an Oxfam partner, who were killed on October 19 while on their way to repair water infrastructure in Khuza’a, east of Khan Younis. “Despite prior coordination with Israeli authorities, their clearly-marked vehicle was attacked,” the report said.
More than 300 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war in October of last year. This is the highest number ever recorded in any single crisis in the world.
