Ghebreyesus: We were shocked when we learned of the killing of a UN humanitarian worker and the injury of another in the Gaza Strip

On Monday, the World Health Organization expressed its shock at the news of the killing of a UN aid worker and the injury of another in occupation raids on the Gaza Strip, and called for a ceasefire and work for peace.

The organization's Director-General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said, "We were shocked to learn of the killing of a UN humanitarian worker and the injury of another in the Gaza Strip."

Ghebreyesus called for a ceasefire and work for peace, stressing that "a very large number of civilian and humanitarian lives have paid the price of the war."

Earlier Monday, medical sources at the Gaza European Hospital in the city of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip, reported the arrival of the bodies of a foreign driver and an injured foreign citizen, both working for the World Health Organization, after the Israeli occupation army opened fire on their car east of Rafah.

This comes as Israeli military vehicles expanded their incursion, yesterday morning, Monday, into the city of Rafah, south of the Gaza Strip, bypassing Salah al-Din Street towards the west towards the Al-Geneina and Al-Salam neighborhoods, coinciding with the intensification of artillery and air raids on the city, which witnessed the displacement of about 350,000 people within a week.

The Israeli war on Gaza since October 7 has left about 114,000 dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.