The World Health Organization (WHO) has reported the death of one of its workers in Gaza, Dima Abdullatif Mohammed Alhaj, 29, in the bombing of the house where he was in the south of the strip, in which several of his relatives also died. “With a broken heart, the WHO announces the death of Dima Abdullatif Mohammed Alhaj. She was murdered along with her husband, her six-month-old baby and her two brothers,” the organization lamented in a statement made public in Twitter.

In that document, the organization has also denounced the death of more than 50 family and community members who were taking refuge in the same house. The deceased, on the WHO staff since December 2019, was a patient administrator in the organization’s Emergency and Traumatology Team, a statement highlighted. Due to hostilities had been evacuated from the capital of Gazain the north of the strip, to the south, where she was taking refuge in her parents’ house, which was hit by a projectile.

Dima He had finished his degree in Environmental and Earth Sciences at the Islamic University of Gaza and studied at the University of Glasgow (United Kingdom). “He was a person wonderful, smiling, happy, positive, respectfula great team player whose work was crucial,” the WHO representative in the Palestinian territories, Rik Peeperkorn, said in the statement.

Along these lines, the WHO has denounced the massacre caused by the Israeli offensive in Gaza. “The humanitarian community and the United Nations family have lost other members since October 7. Doctors Without Borders have lost two doctors in the last few hours. UNRWA has lost 108 colleagues. These are not just numbers, but people who worked so that others could have a better life,” recalled the organization, which closed the statement asking: “When will this end?”