The non-governmental organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières, MSF) announced yesterday Tuesday the death of its worker in the Gaza Strip, along with other members of his family, due to an Israeli bombardment of the Ash Shati refugee camp the day before yesterday, Monday, November 6.

Mohamed al-Ahel, a laboratory technician who had worked for MSF for over two years, was killed when the camp was hit, collapsing the property where his house was located. Dozens more people lost their lives in that blow, MSF said via X (formerly Twitter).

“Our repeated calls for an immediate ceasefire” have been in vain as those concerned “turn a deaf ear”, but “we reiterate that this is the only way to allow sufficient amounts of humanitarian aid to arrive” in the Palestinian enclave, the NGO added.

During a press conference yesterday Tuesday in Paris, at the headquarters of Médecins Sans Frontières, their director Claire Magon underlined that the medical and nursing staff are powerless given the catastrophic situation, the population is suffering and “in the face of this centenary, the cessation of the fire has turned into a critical emergency.”

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), citing figures from the Hamas health ministry, says 192 health workers have died since the Israel/Hamas war broke out on October 7. Of these, at least 16 were killed in the line of duty, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).