Our heartfelt condolences go out to Omar’s family, colleagues, and friends.
Omar was killed and other staff were injured during an overnight attack on the PRCS building in Khan Younis.
Omar and the other injured colleagues were on duty in a clearly marked Palestine Red Crescent Society’s (PRCS) building. PRCS provides essential support to communities in Gaza. It is unacceptable that first responders in Gaza – like Omar and staff and volunteers of the PRCS – go to work every day fearing they may not return to their families.
It is an outrage that so many staff and volunteers of the PRCS and other first responders have been killed and injured in the last 21 months of conflict.
Humanitarian relief personnel and objects used for humanitarian relief operations must be respected and protected in all circumstances. They must never be attacked. All feasible measures must be taken to ensure their safety.
About the ICRC
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is a neutral, impartial and independent organization with an exclusively humanitarian mandate that stems from the Geneva Conventions of 1949. It helps people around the world affected by armed conflict and other violence, doing everything it can to protect their lives and dignity and to relieve their suffering, often alongside its Red Cross and Red Crescent partners.
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