WHO driver killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza, colleagues say

A Palestinian man working for the World Health Organization was killed by Israeli gunfire in Gaza on Monday, according to his colleagues and a doctor who received his body.

Majdi Aslan, 54, was driving an “internationally assigned vehicle with international markings” along Salah al-Din Road –the main north-south street in Gaza – when it came under fire, said Dr. Fathi Al-Loulou.

Another WHO employee, Raed Aslan, told CNN that the vehicle was on its way to evacuate patients when it was struck. It was marked with the World Health Organization logo “from all sides,” he said.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), in a statement, gave a differing account of the incident and did not…

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