War on Gaza: UN confirms killing of first international staff in Rafah in Israeli ‘attack’

The UN confirmed its first international staff casualty in Gaza after a UN vehicle was struck in Rafah. Farhan Haq, a spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stated during a news conference that the total number of UN staff killed in Gaza since October 7 has reached 190.
Haq characterized the Rafah incident as an attack and confirmed that two individuals were in a UN-marked vehicle en route to the European Hospital as part of their duties. The UN stated they work for the Department of Safety and Security and came under fire, resulting in one death-an international staff member of the UN. The UN is withholding the individual's nationality until family members are informed.
The second individual sustained minor injuries and is expected to fully recover.
Al Jazeera's Hind Khoudari and Gabriel Elizondo join us live from Deir el-Balah in Gaza and the UN headquarters in New York to discuss the latest updates.
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[@shushlabs76]

this should grant Israel be kicked out of UN

[@ClaireLavoie-qk2xe]

Israel has already shredded the UN charter, so it should be expelled!

[@orientalgirl8926]

they are used since decades so long to kill how many and whom they want without being hold accountable. this is so sick!

[@davidmoore8398]

LOL not happening

[@ACInCda1718]

​@@davidmoore8398 May take time but world's normal people on board or haven't you noticed?

[@Ljounieh]

Absolutely

[@BGivka]

What a disgrace ! This is why they don't want media there. Imagine the things we don't see.

[@sebastianapollodelavega1445]

so true wow scary

[@user-Balthazar669]

This isn’t new, the American and UK governments have been proudly prompting up foreign governments forever. It’s openly one of America’s strategies for limiting their liability overseas. Israel is just another forward operating base “F.O.B.” like Haiti or Guam. Appointed governors in the latter two as the locals can’t be trusted not to try to rule themselves.

[@livnielsen3647]

Trust me... The things you don't see are scaring to watch. The amount of dead children I have seen during this war is unimaginable... Its so brutal... I have no words, and the images will haunt me for the rest of my life.. As they should.

[@jacquescoetzee7952]

Arrest Netanyahu!!!

[@Ole_Woodworm]

@@israeljames6265 bad hasbara

[@XLeon_S_KennedyX]

@@israeljames6265 Only stupid people think it only started on Oct 7th. What about Oct 6th? Or the years before hamas? Stfu!

[@elizabethgtz6168]

​@@israeljames6265who is doing that bombings??

[@MView-ye8cy]

​@@israeljames6265oi hello look before 7th October.isreali Genocide force how many killed civilians How many killed childrens.

[@SnNvee2936]

@@israeljames6265you are delusional

[@resurrectedone7463]

"Every time anyone says that Israel is our only friend in the Middle East, I can't help but think that before Israel, we had no enemies in the Middle East."--------Father John Sheehan

[@k9k9k9er6]

??? Before Is rael the Ottoman Empire was the enemy 🤣😂🤣😂 U ppl are so ignorant and try to sound smart…🤣😂🤣😂

[@k9k9k9er6]

Before Is rael, was the Ottoman Empire…which was a big enemy of the west 🤣😂🤣😂 What an ignorant quote…these r the people u learn from??? 🤣😂🤣🤣

[@chuckrogers4917]

Palestine celebrated 9/11. America has no love for them

[@Bandonian93]

Before Israel and after the Ottomans you had about 30 years. Before complaining about someone's historic illiteracy, I'd suggest knowing some yourself.

[@Marss13z]

Well that's not right at all.

[@1906james]

Clearly Marked UN vehicle.

[@zetanta8490]

It was a Hamas vehicle camoflaged as UN vehicle

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

Zionists do this crimes not the Palestinians

[@1906james]

@@zetanta8490 possible but not probable

[@final1fantasy]

They were traveling in a convoy. It was clearly marked with UN labels and the UN flag flying from the back of the vehicle.

[@Titus9508]

​@@zetanta8490Yeah, it always seems to be, like those 10 year old HAMAS operative sniped for flying kites.

[@Mimicry161]

They've BEEN attacking UN staff.

[@Robert_Bob_Bobrob]

UN staff, aid workers, medical personel, children.... and they dare call themselves the most moral army in the world.

[@shem4753]

But still USA and western countries keep their mouth shut.

[@bctpcp9546]

That's because they are in their pockets. This is the extent of it.

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

because they are polytheisten

[@YusufSande]

The western nations are literally giving them guns and ammo to keep it going ....

[@josephherrer5456]

Claro porque el afectado es Israel

[@sebastianapollodelavega1445]

why ?? sadddddddddddddddddddddd

[@anya8861]

They know exactly what they doing! And now they going to lie and say they thought it was Hamas!

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

They have been doing this for 75 years, lying to people, cheating, spying, misleading, that is the hobby of the settler Zionists.

[@twilajohnson2313]

100% 🎯

[@Skankinpig]

To Israel's government, everyone is Hamas.

[@ruthokelley5833]

‘They’ we’re hiding Hamas..,

[@libaz82]

Zion1$m is Naz1$m!

[@user-kf7vr6xf5l]

Zion1$m is Fasc1$m!

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

Correct

[@michaelgreen398]

Nazis would be ashamed to do what zionist nazis are doing

[@jeezymay]

AshkeNAZIs...it was always them. They snuck right into Israel after causing havoc in Germany

[@imbatman110]

When will the world wake up. The whole world is allowing it by not trying to stop. Shame to humanity.

[@PhotoMakeupFactory]

The work is woken up, but what does it do? The most powerful militaries refuse to stop

[@Dynamatrix1973]

Sending men to war costs billions. The USA and those Muslim countries you talk about do big business in the billions. Israel is good for business for everybody. Well except Palestinians 😂.

[@philsmycrevice]

I can already hear the excuse that, "HAMAS has been driving around disguised as UN workers & it was an accident".

[@hannahassan2574]

This is getting out of hand ..stop this genocide for goodness sake!!!!

[@user-gs5rb6jq3r]

TO END IT FREE ALL HOSTAGES SOME ARE AMERICANS SOME ARE BRITISH SOME ARE GRANDMOTHERS SOME ARE CHILDREN OR ITS IS OK FOR THE HOSTAGES TO REMAIN IN HAMAS HANDS

[@dipdopity]

@@user-gs5rb6jq3r no right to talk to talk about hostages…

[@anya8861]

Stop the Genocide, stop the apartheid, stop the squatting, give the people's land back

[@saf9961]

​@user-gs5rb6jq3r ask the Israe govt your question.this govt refused the deal last week that would have freed their hostages

[@tonycat721]

@@user-gs5rb6jq3r just like the 10,000's of men women and CHILDREN held in prisons by the IDF ................ IDF because the Palestine's do NOT get a civil court hearing. They are heard by IDF court.......

[@islamvibe2]

36k people killed 😢no one say something ...UN staff killed UN condemned 😢evil people

[@Ek0]

Palestine is almost 50% children. Approximately 18k would be children who had nothing to do with Hamas.

[@faiqaazhar1952]

UN officers are like puppet when it comes to the accountability of israel.they can't do anything except talking

[@danwotsa4522]

Cry cry cry 😭

[@danwotsa4522]

😂

[@Cryosxify]

​@@Ek0nazi Israel considers the future potential of children to be enemies of Israel as a reason to target them

[@user-uf5sd3yk6g]

A UN marked vehicle..??? Where is the accountability? The justice?

[@user-gs5rb6jq3r]

A WAR ZONE IS A RISKY PLACE TO BE DRIVING AROUND AND EXPECT TO NOT BE IN HARM WAY BY BULLETS OR MISSISLE WHAT DO THEY THING BECAUSE THEY ARE UN THAT THEY ARE BULLET PROOF

[@user-jz9kw1xt9u]

The UN approved the occupation of Palestine UN 1948. There was no country called Israel before 1948.

[@charlesfriscia7236]

And there was no Palestine until 1967...Relax it will all be over soon enough..They entered the last city.

[@pauls4742]

No true. In 1948 the UN approved the partition of Palestine into Israel and Palestine. Israel was granted statehood, Palestine wasn't. This is a historical oversight and Palestine needs to be given statehood now.

[@ayeaye1363]

They are just a bunch of bullies..

[@benjaminbakubye9477]

and were did the israelits come from????

[@user-gs5rb6jq3r]

@@benjaminbakubye9477 From Abraham the GRANDFATHER OF.ISRAEL THE FATHER OF THE ISMELITE ALSO.

[@zahraali3480]

Where is accountability? Why is israel getting away with these harendous crimes.

[@jtdollarfitness3048]

Because they just white people that's why

[@Robert_Bob_Bobrob]

American veto power and a deep rooted zionist lobbying apparatus buying both parties!

[@Aden288]

The smell of oil ...

[@trujews466]

They own all the money. And then there's Rev 3:9 they have to deal with.

[@No_nosay]

Is that why they need Americas money and bombs? Because they’re broke losers and you’re satanic interpretation of the bable proves how evil and false your god is

[@ahmedjabri3199]

Imagine those are UN staff who should be protected and respected, what would the situation with Palestinian childern and women !!!!

[@clarity4444]

If ever there was a reason to kick them out of the UN this is it right here. If not then everyone in the UN should walk out when that clown drama queen representative gets to speak. Hes a total disgrace with his antics.

[@brianfitzpatrick3973]

The DOPPLEGANGER comes armed with heaps of PROPS

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

Correct

[@aegonbeio703]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@worldwide1856743]

👌👌👌👌

[@Kholmi.28]

Israel has gone absolutely rogue!🌚And it's taken a UN staff for them to e realised? smh.

[@jasonolszanicky4035]

You didn't think this was going to happen with the targeted killing of the world kitchen people?

[@Roughide]

I'm still trying to understand how that got swept under the rug. Multiple international aid workers were murdered deliberately.

[@shawncross2635]

Israel have the most undisciplined military and the US and others should not be giving immature kids weapons.

[@ochysam5298]

This is insanity

[@Emmadaniels100]

Stop talking and do something about this senseless bloodshed in the name of a war.

[@patrickconroy9535]

Get up off your seat and do something then

[@annamric6597]

​@@patrickconroy9535 💩💩💩💩

[@Titus9508]

​@@patrickconroy9535idiot.

[@Hansa7122]

This is terrible.

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

madness, horror, barbaric

[@zoeghdie1]

The Nazi's strike again.. I guess they'll blame Hamas.

[@jennydavis4872]

For Sure 🙄

[@shanti888]

Please stop this madness !!!

[@happytape307]

Unfettered international lawlessness.

[@user-qy8qg9nd7j]

I dare the UN to do something about it .. .. you can't , big blue UN letters is a target

[@boubousky4068]

UN really doesnt serve no one in this world except the security council

[@annamric6597]

Zionist troll💩💩💩💩

[@seynabowcali6231]

Investigation from IDF ? Sad stories day in and day out because no accountability.

[@Stephanie-zd5im]

There must be Independent Investigations.

[@gadielyoutube2482]

Jaja. Israel IDF VAMOS ELIMINAR HAMAS

[@clivefinlay3901]

Nothing on BBC News as at 8:35pm…..come on wake up!!

[@Trading0.382]

Why is it so difficult for anyone to intervene and put a stop to Israel's actions? Even with organizations like the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the United Nations (UN) in place, why do they seem unable to halt Israel's actions? If it were any other country in Israel's position, it seems likely that the United States would lead a global effort to impose sanctions. So why hasn't this happened with Israel? Is there an end in sight to the suffering and violence, or will the cycle of genocide continue indefinitely? Will those responsible for these atrocities ever face justice? If so, when can we expect it to happen? And if not, what is the purpose of institutions like the ICJ and UN if they can't effectively address such grave violations of human rights?

[@GaIvatr0n]

Because you have to laugh at the boss's jokes and go along with what he says

[@stefanmaslaczyk1259]

As Henry Kissinger said “If you control the money you can control everything”.

[@arturferrao7353]

@@user-hp5jl9zRKO "Why can’t Hamas surrender" For what? For the palestinians lose the only protection they have against genocide?

[@talianavarro7492]

Israel will say it was a Hamas commander aboard of just a unfortunate accident n the world will not gonna do nothing like always

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

They (the Zionists) have been blaming the Palestinians for 100 years, more specifically the Sunnis are always the target. And what can they do to vilify Islam, there is no point because Islam is the Truth and is getting stronger

[@kingsinix8570]

This is ridiculous

[@Alllooona]

Shame on Israel 😢😢

[@ssebunyanicholas3118]

Ur a real 🐖 🐷 🐽

[@chillquinones5362]

Add to the mounting heaps of never ending investigations...that goes nowhere!

[@fk3461]

Arrest netnyaho

[@jumas.sendekwa2788]

Just thinking what they will say "ut is khamas who started this"

[@dlfields8429]

Those murdering cowards believe they are above the law.

[@ainyabdullah8272]

Arrest Natanyahu he is killer

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

More than that. He curse and insult our religion Islam

[@ainyabdullah8272]

@@beauty_and_healthy_sports I know arrest is little thing

[@user-yc7ws9jp9g]

​@@beauty_and_healthy_sports sooner religion is gone the world will be a better place for everyone,religion is the reason why there's wars and hate.

[@xentaatnex8261]

On June 8, 1967, Israeli Air Force jets and Navy motor torpedo boats attacked the USS Liberty, an unarmed US Navy technical research ship, during the Six-Day War. The attack took place in international waters off the coast of Egypt, 12.5 miles from the Egyptian coast and 6.5 miles from the Israeli coast. The attack lasted for two hours, killing 34 American sailors and injuring 172, resulting in a casualty rate of 70%. This is one of the highest casualty rates ever suffered by a US naval vessel.

[@coleengoodell7523]

Thank you! I hadn't heard about this, yet I kept seeing comments that said, "Remember the USS Liberty". I know I could have looked it up, no excuse. I appreciate you taking the time to explain it so thoroughly.

[@haniffrasheed-np6rz]

Did any Muslim country ever attack an unarmed American ship killing American citizens can someone tell me

[@premierpollo]

Netanyahu must be punished!

[@user-dd5ig1dk6r]

If God gave me land and I had to kill this much to keep it, I would pass- no no thanks 🙏👍 then it was either never his to give or I heard wrong. It doesn't seem right to me

[@chrisgardner4222]

Wake up, there's no proof, whatsoever, of any god, other than in delusional, myth based "holy books". It's the 21st Century and humans desperately need to evolve beyond tribal, religious (Bronze Age) nonsense before we end up killing one another in the name of our idiotic, GD gods. How pathetic.

[@MuraliKrishna-fm7qv]

Best Army in the world 🌎 breaking world record 💜 let world see the true face 💜 people blood river is running in GAZA only God can stop this killing 🙏

[@quaidmciver172]

Not again 😮 the IOF is out on control

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

They are Satan

[@americperu]

Netanyahu monster👺

[@jacobrocks7]

Absolutely shameful

[@sanjayanand3958]

Why the dash did he get there ?? Doesn't he have simple common sense that there will be collateral damage in a war zone ??

[@pdalaigh]

Words fail me....... but its alright they are the chosen people after all....

[@Aden288]

Who don't believe in God. The irony.

[@slavmirradek9568]

RIP Waibhav Sir …. May God give strength to ur family to cope up with the loss.

[@devinaudette9770]

How is this happening?

[@big.brother___]

No one os safe

[@joemoore7447]

Oh dear, how sad, never mind!

[@Titus9508]

Oh dear, both your braincells fallen out again?

[@Harambain]

In a convoy with live ammo huh? Well dosent that sound like a violation of use for a UN vehicles. So why is a UN vehicle in a military convoy?

[@lukaszzatorski9455]

And still nothing being done.... 😢. How long we will be ok with all that???

[@TheProfessional15]

NO BORDERS NO NATIONS

[@TAL142]

Hardly a word in the MSM. This is how bad these propanganda machine is.

[@evarestkitchen]

'They had live ammunition' who?

[@msaltalola]

And they'll do absolutely NOTHING about it!

[@anonymous-ll4bw]

not the first time

[@HassanAhmed-wx6je]

So what is ur solution UN?

[@juanvaladez5703]

Why is ‘attack’ in quotation marks?

[@uncle7080]

Criminal will "investigate" his own Crime, sound about right 💁🏻‍♂️ what a world we living it

[@francoisstauffacher6638]

Blame it on IDF, with direct orders from above

[@zetanta8490]

UN staff was Khamas😂

[@beauty_and_healthy_sports]

Everything is Hamas, even the dogs and cats are also their terrorists. This horror really has to stop

[@worldperish]

I can’t stand when they pronounce h with k 🤮

[@TonnySBrown-yx4od]

People are in war and when the tension is very high we don't go there so apart from this why are these UN staff member went there,common on!!??

[@estonkalutwa-yc8ps]

The devil,the Monster you created now has turned against you...

[@user-qc5pf6xu9w]

israHellis.

[@simonbilling2796]

Free Palestine 🇯🇴 🇯🇴 🇯🇴

[@Islam4Europeans]

May Allah keep you safe Hind

[@Optimus987]

UN or not, He could have avoided going into the combat area.

[@CabdifataaxMaxamed-sc6dg]

There isno accountabilities this is madness 😠 imagine falastiin children and women

[@ahmedsabir1181]

Boycott Products all brands ATM Card service provider company ❌ Global 🚫worldwide 🌎

[@InsanePandaWanderer]

You really have no right to complain by going into an active warzone.

[@Alexander-Kurtz]

Exactly what I say, when I see snowflakes like yourself, crying over the death of Israeli soldiers (baby killers).....

[@DirtyRa]

brave women reporting from gaza.god bless you

[@user-bx1wj2ub6h]

Stop Genocide in Gaza

[@graceandtruth7]

None of us know when we will step into eternity! John 14:6 Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. If you haven't already done so, please put your trust in Jesus whilst you still can!

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

Unkind. Using suffering as an opportunity to proselytise for Christianity. .

[@graceandtruth7]

​@@bernardofitzpatrick5403 The greatest kindness that can be offered whatever the circumstances is to draw people's attention that this life is but a blink, and that we all will die and face eternity and that we need to put our trust in Jesus to spend it with God.

[@zen5419-so8kp]

UN people should stay out of a warzone in Rafah. Do you see UN vehicles in the warzones of Ukraine? None. Why? Because it is a freaking warzone!

[@Robert_Bob_Bobrob]

They are in Ukraine too. Maybe the Russians realise that no one will bail them out for their war crimes so they don't go targeting UN vehicles?

[@Ljounieh]

Of course there are UN vehicles in Ukraine, that's literally why they exist, genius

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

@@Ljouniehwell said !

[@zen5419-so8kp]

@@Ljounieh are they in the warzone? you idiot. Are they roaming around Kharkiv, Adiivka, or known frontlines?

[@ramblingbootsIRL]

We all know what they think of the UN.

[@Woobieeee]

You telling me its dangerous in a warzone?

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

Any compassion ?

[@Titus9508]

You telling us it's an accident?

[@Woobieeee]

@@Titus9508 people dying in a warzone? no, not an accident.

[@Woobieeee]

@@bernardofitzpatrick5403 why?

[@jaycol21]

I like this spokesman. I wish we could get someone that to-the-point for the White House. Reporter: Is it fair to characterize this as an attack? UN Spokesman: Yes 😐

[@kamranchoudhry321]

UN should cancel Israëls membership 😡😡😡

[@baronjay8017]

What are they doing in Rafah in the middle of a war?

[@Retiredcheater]

What are you investigating?

[@lordvader3425]

Why the surprise? This thing happen in war zone.

[@Ljounieh]

A member state assassinating UN workers? Not really

[@bernardofitzpatrick5403]

Genocide zone ?

[@lordvader3425]

@@bernardofitzpatrick5403 I haven't seen it.

[@habtomaraya7729]

UN staff is Hama's

[@happytimeharry363]

@habtomaraya7729,...according to you, everything is Hahmoss.

[@Allfaxnocaps]

They are driving around a brand new mini man that says UN on it. Nothing else.

[@jjohnson5014]

Targeting journalists, World Central Kitchen aid workers, and now UN security personnel. The latest is a message to the UN Secretary General

[@MrMAXZ888]

"UN staff" means Hamas member with UN credentials.

[@Stephanie-zd5im]

Rubbish.

[@amranbarwaqo4562]

Nonsense

[@MrMAXZ888]

@@amranbarwaqo4562 Ismail Hanyeh used to be an UNRWA teacher. In Gaza, UN and Hamas are virtually one and the same. Outside of Gaza it's just a useless agency.

[@Ole_Woodworm]

@@MrMAXZ888 BS

[@annamric6597]

​@@MrMAXZ888Poison comes out of you mouth with every breath you take.

[@singa68]

What are they doing in a war zone? They should be in Ukraine .

[@Robert_Bob_Bobrob]

They are in Ukraine too. You are on the internet, maybe fact check before spouting nonsense!

[@Ljounieh]

And Ukraine is what?? ffs

[@happytimeharry363]

@singa68,...Ukraine is a war zone also.

[@Isla_Dawa]

How many investigations? What was the previous in extigztind results ?

[@djamburere]

Countdown until they blame Hamas

[@Alwaysinvisable]

Well that’s because the UN staff is Hamas

[@Stephanie-zd5im]

The UN is a Global Organisation and they always maintain a presence in War Zones all around the world. They are not Hamas!!!

[@Ljounieh]

Hilarious

[@Stephanie-zd5im]

The UN are a Global Organisation who maintain a presence in all Wars and Conflicts. That is their job. They are not Hamas!

[@welovejoebidenandkamalaharNot]

Prove it.

[@Titus9508]

Are you hearing voices again?

[@k9k9k9er6]

Who ki lled them? U people just blame Jews right away right?

[@ishaqeastman5064]

Na, we blame isreal 'the only Jewish state in the world'

[@jaycol21]

We blame the armed *Israelis* that announced they were going to invade Rafah. Stop trying to conflate Jews and Israelis. We’ve got more Jewish people in the US than in Israel. Our Jewish people didn’t do this.

[@wamnicho]

@@jaycol21 you’re very naive, do you know a Jew born and raised in New York, can go and get automatic citizenship in Israel and kick out a Palestinian from his home

[@hindaclubhindaclub]

This is the zionist period

[@Titus9508]

Typical Antisemitism, conflating all Jews with the Israeli government. You should be ashamed.

[@iramkhan5568]

Was there a tunnel in the vehicle

[@FergusGrant]

It was a terror tunnel network three storeys deep that housed a Hamas command centre.

[@christianranaud9221]

Imagine he did happen in Congo?! What would happen?? Double standard!

Why did they target the UN truck...these are intentionally being hit...these trucks are well marked and they communicate their movements.

[@Marss13z]

I believe there were some UNRWA staff killed during their participation in the Oct. 7 attacks.

[@Titus9508]

Why has Israel blocked an investigation into that then? Oh, yeah, it's another set of lies.

[@andykapp9581]

They gonna say “it’s anti Semetic to accuse IDF of such a crime. We will add it on to the other incidents we are currently investigating.”

[@tahirmukadam4935]

Why is this not everywhere?