The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) issued an urgent appeal to the international community to ensure the protection of medical and humanitarian workers in Palestine.
In a statement released Monday, the Red Crescent said 48 of their staff members have been killed in Gaza and the West Bank since the war began on October 7, 2023 — including 30 who “were killed while performing their humanitarian duty wearing the Red Crescent emblem”.
Some 1,400 humanitarian and medical workers have been killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war, according to the statement, which added that “dozens of medical personnel working in Gaza… were detained while performing their humanitarian duties.”
It reiterated its appeal to the international community and human rights organizations to urgently act to halt the targeting of healthcare workers and to secure safe corridors for delivering humanitarian aid to civilians trapped in the Gaza Strip.
