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Friday, September 27, 2024
Palestinian gunmen slay female aid worker in Gaza in volley of bullets
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Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip shot and killed an aid worker from a US based charity, firing on her car in what Hamas officials claimed was a case of mistaken identity.
Other unverified reports, meanwhile, said that she was murdered by Hamas gunmen for refusing to turn over aid funds to the terror group.
The car in which Islam Hejazy, Gaza program manager at HEAL Palestine, was traveling was intercepted yesterday in the area of Khan Younis in the south of the enclave.
Gunmen riding in three cars sprayed the vehicle with dozens of bullets, according to residents and the woman’s family.
“She was the mother of two small children and a humanitarian with the highest ethics and professionalism,” HEAL Palestine, posts on its Facebook page. “HEAL Palestine is more dedicated than ever to serving Gaza, in her honor. Ceasefire now.”
Her family issues a statement, saying they were told by Hamas-run government parties at the hospital where her body was taken that she was killed by mistake. Her killers, whose identity wasn’t immediately clear, had failed to identify the vehicle she was driving, they say.
There has been no immediate comment from Hamas.
“That was a bigger shock… How would an innocent soul be wasted and 90 bullets fired at her car just for mistaken identification?” the family says in a statement published by Palestinian media.
The Times of Israel Community.