Red Cross pleads for Gaza ceasefire after two workers killed

AFP , Sunday 25 May 2025

Two Red Cross workers were killed in a strike on their home in the Gaza city of Khan Younis, the ICRC said Sunday as it made an "urgent" appeal for a ceasefire in the Israeli genocidal war.

Palestinian Red Crescent Society employees embrace as the bodies of their colleagues are brought to a medical facility in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. Photo courtesy of Anadolu Agency

"We are heartbroken by the death of two dear colleagues, Ibrahim Eid and Ahmad Abu Hilal," the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a social media statement.

The Israeli strike was carried out on Saturday, the ICRC added, without saying who staged the attack. Israel has acknowleged, however, that it carried out strikes in Khan Younis on Saturday.

The ICRC said that Eid had worked as a weapons contamination officer for the ICRC and that Hilal had been a security guard at a Red Cross hospital.

"Their killing points to the intolerable civilians death toll in Gaza," said the statement.

"The ICRC reiterates its urgent call for a ceasefire and for the respect and protection of civilians, including medical, humanitarian, relief and civil defence personnel."

Israel resumed strikes in Gaza after ending the ceasefire in March and has stepped up the attacks since May 17.

Since the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip began on 7 October, 2023, Israel killed over 53,000 Palestinians, most of them women and children, with over 120,000 others injured, according to the latest figures.

* This story was edited by Ahram Online.