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SvennoJ on 17 September 2025
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‘Not a tragic accident’: MSF says 13th staff member killed in Israeli air raid on Gaza

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says another one of its Palestinian staff members has been killed after being wounded by shrapnel caused by an Israeli air attack – the 13th of the organisation’s employees to have been killed during Israel’s war on Gaza.

MSF said in a statement that Hussein Alnajjar, a nurse who worked for its clinics in Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis, died on Tuesday from injuries sustained five days earlier in the attack near his tent.

Alnajjar was a father of three children, and his sister-in-law and nephew were also wounded in the same incident.

“This is not a tragic accident; it is yet again a demonstration that there is no safe refuge anywhere in the Gaza Strip,” said the statement.

“We are outraged that military violence continues to kill our Palestinian colleagues.”


UK minister condemns strike on Gaza City children’s hospital

The UK’s minister for the Middle East and North Africa, Hamish Falconer, says he is “horrified” by last night’s Israeli strike on the al-Rantisi Children’s Hospital in Gaza City.

“Babies in incubators and children on dialysis should not be under bombardment,” he said in a post on X.

The Health Ministry in Gaza said the medical facility was struck three consecutive times, but no casualties were reported. At least 40 patients are believed to have fled the hospital, while 40 stayed behind with some staff.


Qatari minister visits ICC to pursue justice over Israeli attack on Doha

Qatar’s minister of state at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says he has travelled to the International Criminal Court in The Hague as he explores a response under international law over Israel’s attack on Doha.

In a post on X, Mohammed bin Abdulaziz al-Khulaifi said he had had two meetings during his trip to The Hague, during which he “reaffirmed Qatar’s commitment to supporting the path of international justice and to ensuring accountability for perpetrators of crimes under international law – including wars [sic] crimes and acts of aggression – so as to prevent them from escaping punishment.”