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.
“For almost 30 years, Issam has worked with UNDP through our Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People,” UNDP administrator Achim Steiner said in a statement.
“The loss of Issam and his family has deeply affected us all. The UN and civilians in Gaza are not a target.”
Offering his condolences to Issam’s family and colleagues the World Health Organization’s chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus stressed in a post on X that “humanitarians should never be victims” and called for a ceasefire.
I agree. I think the reason Aljazeera report so well on this is due to having many Arabi speaking Journalists and employing many people from the Middle East. They usually have video evidence of everything they provide, making it hard to refute.
My main issue with them is Aljazeera Arabic’s emotional and charged language
For example it will say:
When Palestinian victims: استشهاد 4 اطفال four Children were martyred
When IDF deaths: الجيش الإسرائيلي يعترف بمقتل 4 من جنوده the Israeli army “admits” to four soldiers killed
But then again, it doesn’t bother me too much that the IDF “admits” casualties because they have been lying about that to everyone since the start. However, I would still prefer reading a source that won’t sway my emotions at every statement
I don’t see this often in Aljazeera English