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All kinds of torture, genocide carried out by Israel in Gaza, says sister of deceased aid worker

August 19, 2024 at 2:11 pm

Palestinians injured or died in Israeli attacks including children, are brought to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, Gaza on August 15, 2024. [Ashraf Amra – Anadolu Agency]

All kinds of torture and genocide against Palestinians have been carried out in Gaza, the sister of Nadi Sallout, a deceased aid worker from World Central Kitchen (WCK), said while recounting the horrors of the brutal Israeli war on Gaza since 7 October, 2023, Anadolu Agency reports.

“For about a year, all kinds of torture and genocide have been carried out in Gaza. It was my brother’s right to see his children … We have the right to live,” Nedaa Sallout told Anadolu.

On 8 August, WCK said Nadi Sallout, a Palestinian, was killed near the central city of Deir Al-Balah, without providing details about the circumstances of his death.

Noting that her brother initially worked in the Rafah region, she said he later worked in a warehouse in Deir Al-Balah.

She said her brother, Nadi, was driving his friend’s car the day he was killed in a bombing by Israel.

“There was a bombardment on the road while Nadi was driving. It was the only main road leading to the Khan Yunis region. Nadi tried to turn the car around at that time. Unfortunately, a piece of shrapnel hit him under his right ear,” she added.

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Noting that her brother had three daughters and a son, she said they had to move to Rafah, but even that region could not meet humanitarian needs.

She added that her brother was supposed to be in the car in which seven WCK employees lost their lives in an Israeli airstrike in April.

“Nadi was supposed to be in the same car, but he was a few minutes late. He apologized to them and said he would come in another car,” she said, recalling her brother as saying that he was seconds away from death.

On 1 April, an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from the group; three Britons, an Australian, a Polish national, a US-Canadian dual citizen and a Palestinian.

Since October last year, more than 280 aid workers – the majority of them staff members of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) – have been killed in Gaza alone.

Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since a 7 October, 2023 attack by Hamas.

The Israeli onslaught has since killed over 40,100 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured over 92,700, according to local health authorities.

More than 10 months into the Israeli onslaught, vast tracts of Gaza lie in ruins amid a crippling blockade of food, clean water and medicine.​​​​​​​

Israel is accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, whose latest ruling ordered it to immediately halt its military operation in the southern city of Rafah, where more than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the war before it was invaded on 6 May.

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