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Doctors Without Borders ‘outraged’ after 15th staffer killed in Gaza, 900,000 left Gaza City
2025-10-06
98% probability the staffers were also on the Hamas payroll. 95% probability that they were fighting for Hamas when the IDF killed him.
[IsraelTimes] Military looking into incident, says target of strike was Hamas operative; four said killed while seeking aid in southern Gaza, at least 8 killed in Gaza City strike

The medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) voiced sorrow and outrage following the death of a colleague in Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response...
on Sunday, as Israeli strikes continued to pound into the enclave, even as negotiators prepared to discuss US President Donald Trump
...They hit him with slander, they impeached him twice. Nancy Pelosi tore up his State of the Union address on national TV. They stole an election and put his adherents in jail. They vilified him. They couldn't crucify him, so they shot him. Still, they can't keep him down...
’s plan to end the war in the Paleostinian enclave.

Abed El Hameed Qaradaya, 43, succumbed to shrapnel injuries sustained on Thursday, amid an attack that killed MSF colleague Omar Hayek and injured several others, the organization said.

MSF said the attack was carried out by Israeli forces. It said its staff were waiting for a bus to the charity’s field hospital at the time, and were all wearing MSF vests.

In response to a query by the Times of Israel, the IDF said the strike on October 2 targeted a Hamas
..always the voice of sweet reason...
operative in central Gaza.

"Reports were received of a local Paleostinian employee of an international organization who was killed, along with several local employees who were maimed," the military said, adding that "the details of the incident are under investigation."

The IDF said that it took steps to mitigate civilian harm in the strike, while stressing that Hamas "embeds itself in the civilian population and exploits it as a human shield for terror purposes."

El Hameed is the 15th MSF staff member killed in the nearly two-year-long conflict, and the third in less than 20 days.

"His loss is immense and has a tragic impact on his loved ones, MSF and the health system in Gaza," the Geneva-based NGO said in a statement.

"For 18 years, Abed El Hameed was a cornerstone of MSF’s physiotherapy department in Gaza. He was a unique and invaluable specialist in both physiotherapy and occupational therapy."

MSF said he innovated and adapted tools, and was the driving force behind opening a 3D physiotherapy department.

"We are profoundly grieved and outraged by the loss of our colleagues — a stark reminder of the pattern of complete disregard for civilian lives and human dignity," it said.

In June 2024, after another MSF staffer, Fadi al-Wadiya, was killed in an IDF strike, the military said he was an Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Moslem Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
operative involved in developing the terror group’s missiles. MSF denied the accusation, then the IDF published a photograph of Wadiya in a PIJ uniform.

Also on Sunday, the IDF published footage showing weapons that it said were left behind by Hamas operatives in a kindergarten and a school in Gaza City.

"Last week, IDF troops identified Hamas bully boyz fleeing a kindergarten in al-Shati, Gaza City. The troops later found an bomb and an AK-47 rifle inside the kindergarten," the military said on its English-language X account.

In a separate post, the IDF’s international media front man, Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, posted a picture of uniforms, military equipment, and a Hamas flag in a classroom, saying: "These weapons were discovered in a school in Gaza a few days ago, a place meant for learning, not terror."

Both educational facilities likely have not been active during the war.



The IDF has repeatedly accused Hamas of using civilian sites — including schools, mosques, and hospitals — for terror, and has published extensive footage showing how the terror group dug tunnels and set up weapon depots in such facilities.

The IDF has also made use of schools in Gaza as temporary encampments for troops during the war.

Planes and tanks pounded areas across the Gaza Strip on Sunday, despite the IDF having moved to purely defensive operations a day earlier.

The military was ordered to halt offensive operations in Gaza City on Saturday amid Trump’s push to bring about an end to the war in the enclave, and so shifted to defensive operations only, acting against those it deemed to pose a threat to troops.

In total, local health authorities said at least 19 people were killed across the Strip on Sunday.

Four of those killed were shot dead near an aid distribution site in the southern city of Rafah, according to Nasser Hospital. Israel’s military said it was not involved.

At least eight others were killed in multiple strikes in Gaza City, according to Shifa hospital, which received the casualties. A security official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media said the strikes were against Hamas militants who were a threat to troops.

The toll could not be independently verified.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 67,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed over 22,000 combatants in battle as of August and another 1,600 terrorists inside Israel during the October 7 onslaught.

Israel’s toll in the ground offensive against Hamas in Gaza and in military operations along the border with the Strip stands at 471. The toll includes two police officers and three Defense Ministry civilian contractors.

IDF says 900,000 estimated to have left Gaza City
[IsraelTimes] Gaza City has nearly completely emptied of Palestinians, according to fresh IDF estimates.

Per the military’s assessments, some 900,000 of the estimated 1 million Palestinians who were residing in Gaza City ahead of the IDF’s major offensive have evacuated to the Strip’s south.

Civilians were instructed last month to evacuate all areas of Gaza City and head to an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone in southern Gaza.

The rate of Palestinians leaving the area has risen in the past weeks, as the IDF advanced deeper into Gaza City, according to Israeli figures.

However, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported on October 2 that it was “estimated that hundreds of thousands of people remain in Gaza city and North Gaza governorate.”

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Related:
Doctors Without Borders: 2025-10-03 Israeli strikes kill 52 in Gaza, including aid worker today
Doctors Without Borders: 2025-09-28 At least 58 Paleostinians have been killed in Israeli strikes since morning, 780,000 fled Gaza City
Doctors Without Borders: 2025-09-12 Hamas government docs detail terror group’s use of Gaza hospitals, medical facilities
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