Two doctors from Doctors Without Borders killed in the Gaza Strip
Published: Tuesday, Nov 21st 2023, 19:50
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Two doctors from the aid organization Doctors Without Borders have been killed in an attack on a hospital in the Gaza Strip. Ahmad Al-Sahar and Mahmud Abu Nudschaila were killed together with a colleague, Siad Al-Tatari, in the Al-Auda Clinic, the organization reported on Tuesday evening in Geneva. The clinic was one of the last still functioning in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. A bullet hit the third and fourth floors. Other staff were injured, some of them seriously.
Israel has been calling on the residents of the northern part to move to the south for weeks. However, hospital staff do not want to abandon patients who are too ill. According to Doctors Without Borders, there are more than 200 patients in the hospital. According to UN estimates, there are still 700,000 people in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. According to Israel, it has been attacking Palestinian militant positions there for weeks. Thousands of houses have been destroyed and, according to the Palestinians, more than 13,000 people have lost their lives.
Doctors Without Borders has strongly condemned the attack. Attacks on hospitals are a serious violation of international humanitarian law, which applies to everyone.
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