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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Jim Gomez and Joeal Calupitan

Global aid group asks warring forces to respect its neutrality with 24 of its aid workers killed

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The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies asked state forces and combatants Thursday to respect its neutrality and work of delivering urgent humanitarian help to the most destitute in war and other high-risk zones, saying 24 of its aid workers had been killed so far this year mostly in the Gaza Strip.

IFRC President Kate Forbes, who is visiting the Philippines, said in a statement posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, that two more of her group’s aid workers, Palestine Red Crescent Society paramedics Haitham Tubasi and Suhail Hassouna, were killed Wednesday when their ambulance was hit west of Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city.

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