Palestine, Oct. 5 -- It is with profound sorrow and outrage that Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) confirms the death of our colleague Abed El Hameed Qaradaya.

Despite the care provided by the medical teams, he succumbed to his critical shrapnel injuries on Sunday, October 5, following an attack on October 2 that also killed our colleague Omar Hayek and injured several others.

The attack, carried out by Israeli forces in Gaza, struck a street where our teams were waiting to take a bus to go to work at MSF field hospital in Deir al-Balah. All staff were wearing MSF vests, which clearly identified them as medical humanitarian workers. Abed was 43 years old and is the 15th MSF staff member killed in Gaza since October ...