U.N. staff member killed in attack on car marked with U.N. flag in Rafah
Source: Washington Post
A U.N. staff member employed by the U.N. Department of Safety and Security was killed while traveling in a U.N. vehicle from Rafah to the European Hospital in the southwest corner of Khan Younis, according to a statement Monday by Farhan Haq, deputy spokesman for the secretary general. Another U.N. staffer was injured in the attack.
The person killed was Waibhav Anil Kale, 46, an Indian national who began work as a U.N. security service coordinator in Gaza last month, according to people familiar with the incident. The people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity while the incident remains under investigation, said there was not yet conclusive information about who fired at the vehicle.
Married, with two teenage children, Kale had been traveling in a clearly marked U.N. vehicle to the European Hospital in Rafah, said the people familiar with the incident.
Haq confirmed that Kale was the first international U.N. casualty since the beginning of the conflict on Oct 7. He added that “we inform the Israeli side of the movement of all our convoys. They are all clearly marked U.N. vehicles.”
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We don't know who carried out the attack yet but it's pretty dirty to shoot up marked aid vehicles
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Makes it easier to target.
We still don't know if it was IDF or Hamas militants. It's pretty shitty either way. There are also American doctors and nurses stranded in Rafah with no supplies and no way of leaving.
