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Gaza: MSF condemns strike killing staff member’s five-year-old daughter [1]

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Date: 2024-08

There were more than 100 MSF staff and their family members seeking safety there at the time of the incident. An immediate and sustained ceasefire in Gaza is critical, and indiscriminate violence against civilians must end, said MSF.



The five-year-old girl, Malak Abu Saada, was critically injured yesterday morning when a suspected tank shell broke through the wall of MSF’s shelter in Khan Younis. The child underwent surgery at the Gaza European Hospital but died of her injuries today. Malak's father, Rafiq Abu Saada, has been an MSF driver since 2009. Three other people received minor injuries during the strike.



“We are outraged and deeply saddened by the death of yet another family member of our MSF staff,” said Thomas Lauvin, MSF project coordinator in Gaza. “This strike on civilians is unacceptable and, once again, goes to show that it doesn’t matter where you are in Gaza, nowhere is safe. The shell did not detonate on impact, otherwise many more of our staff and their families would have most likely been killed.”

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[1] Url: https://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gaza-msf-condemns-strike-killed-staff-members-five-year-old-daughter

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