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Israeli strikes kill UN staff, more than 70 of his extended family in Gaza

Palestinian employees of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) take part in a protest in Gaza City [File:Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters}

A United Nations official has been killed along with more than 70 members of his extended family in an Israeli air strike near Gaza City, as hundreds of people have been killed in intensified bombardment since Friday’s UN Security Council resolution that has been criticised as “woefully insufficient”.

Issam Al Mughrabi, 56, who worked for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) for three decades was killed along with his wife and children in an Israeli air strike on Friday.

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