Contract workers with Anera are latest victims of relief workers targeting
Egyptian trucks carrying humanitarian aid bound for the Gaza Strip queue outside the Rafah border crossing on the Egyptian side on 23 March 2024
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor reports on 1 September 2024:
Euro-Med Monitor expresses deep concern over Israel’s systematic and persistent targeting of humanitarian aid workers, relief organisations, and humanitarian missions in the Gaza Strip. This targeting jeopardises efforts to provide life-saving aid and tightens restrictions on efforts to alleviate the humanitarian crisis in the Strip, which may constitute war crimes.
Israel has been methodically and continuously targeting humanitarian workers, including Palestinians and foreign citizens. Over 300 relief workers, most of whom are employed by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Gaza, have been killed by Israel during its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, ongoing since 7 October 2023.
The Israeli army’s targeting of humanitarian aid workers and those ensuring the distribution of food and medical supplies in the Gaza Strip—individuals with no affiliation to any governmental or security structures—constitutes a compound crime. This may be related to the Israeli intentional use of starvation as a weapon against Palestinian civilians and its plans to destabilize the region and undermine security.
Four members of a local protection team in the Gaza Strip have been killed as a result of an Israeli attack on an Anera (formerly American Near East Refugee Aid) organisation convoy. The attack took place at approximately 3:35 pm on Thursday 29 August 2024, when an Israeli bombardment targeted a vehicle leading an Anera aid convoy carrying food and fuel to the Emirates Red Crescent Hospital. Four Palestinians were killed in the attack: Fathi Amira al-Amur, Mohammed Sami al-Amur, Saed Jihad al-Amur, and Mohammed Ahmed Abu Shriteh. The victims were part of a local protection team contracted by the intermediary company.