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Israel kills pregnant aid worker and two infant children in airstrike

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Everexpanding · 26/09/2025 09:10

A 27-YEAR-OLD aid worker and her two young children were killed by an Israeli strike last week.
Tasneem, a psychologist with Oxfam Ireland-linked aid organisation Juzoor, and her two children, five-year-old Sham and three-year-old Suleiman were killed when an Israeli airstrike struck an apartment building on Saturday.
Tasneem was pregant when the strike occurred. Her husband was critically injured following the airstrike and is currently in intensive care.
The couple had already lost their son, Muslam, in a previous attack last year.

Tasneem joined Juzoor in January 2025. According to humanitarian organisation CARE, she worked at a school shelter for displaced people in Al-Daraj neighborhood of Gaza City, supporting children who lost their homes, and many of whom lost parents and friends or sustained life changing injuries.

Despite knowing the risks, Tasneem chose to remain in Gaza City to continue serving her community.

Oxfam Ireland CEO Jim Clarken described Tasneem as “a dedicated humanitarian, working under unimaginable conditions to support others”

“Words cannot express the depth of our sorrow and outrage at the deliberate killing of Tasneem, her two young children, and her unborn baby,” Clarken said.

Since October 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) has documented over 720 attacks on healthcare institutions in Gaza, with at least 1,580 health workers killed and as yet unknown numbers arrested and detained by Israel.

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PollyPaintsFlowers · 26/09/2025 17:42

Wedonttalkaboutboris · 26/09/2025 17:38

Imagine reading about a pregnant aid worker and her children being blown apart and thinking the clever response is ‘blame Hamas.’

Imagine thinking the clever response isn't to blame Hamas, the exact people who started this war, deliberately uses human shields, even children and aid workers, and won't release the hostages and end the war

PollyPaintsFlowers · 26/09/2025 17:41

Wedonttalkaboutboris · 26/09/2025 17:37

An aid worker, her unborn child, her two little ones, and over 1,500 health workers killed- and your instinct is to shrug and say ‘blame Hamas’? That’s not an explanation, it’s an excuse for war crimes.

International law exists precisely because ‘urban war’ doesn’t give a free pass to bomb hospitals, shelters, or families in their homes.

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Actually international law takes into account the reality of urban warfare and makes exceptions for civilian buildings if they are being used by the enemy. If, say, a hospital is being used by enemy forces it loses its protected status and it isn't a war crime to target it

Why would an aid worker be deliberately targeted? It doesn't make sense. It is a tragedy, but it's a war

More importantly, why haven't Hamas surrendered? What is there left to negotiate? Losers don't get to negotiate anything. They need to just surrender. Free the hostages and lay down arms. Game over.

Wedonttalkaboutboris · 26/09/2025 17:38

Imagine reading about a pregnant aid worker and her children being blown apart and thinking the clever response is ‘blame Hamas.’

PollyPaintsFlowers · 26/09/2025 17:37

Thank goodness we didn't have 'pro-Palestinian' style activists during the two world wars or we'd all be speaking German. Although, talking of Germans, they knew when they were beat and surrendered, therefore avoiding unnecessary death and destruction. But they didn't have a death wish or a desire to martyr their entire society

Wedonttalkaboutboris · 26/09/2025 17:37

PollyPaintsFlowers · 26/09/2025 17:35

It's an urban war with enemy militants blended in with the civilian population. Blame Hamas

An aid worker, her unborn child, her two little ones, and over 1,500 health workers killed- and your instinct is to shrug and say ‘blame Hamas’? That’s not an explanation, it’s an excuse for war crimes.

International law exists precisely because ‘urban war’ doesn’t give a free pass to bomb hospitals, shelters, or families in their homes.

PollyPaintsFlowers · 26/09/2025 17:35

It's an urban war with enemy militants blended in with the civilian population. Blame Hamas

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Everexpanding · 26/09/2025 17:29

So so many of these stories, so so sad

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Wedonttalkaboutboris · 26/09/2025 16:08

Absolutely horrifying. Beyond words.

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Everexpanding · 26/09/2025 09:46

There are too many stories like this, yes @Gardeninging think we should all be doing Italian style protests

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Gardeninging · 26/09/2025 09:21

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Kakeandkake · 26/09/2025 09:18

It's sickening. How many innocent children do they murder every single day.

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Everexpanding · 26/09/2025 09:10

The deliberate targeting of aid workers and the destruction of clinics providing life-saving care to pregnant women, children, and the sick is not only a violation of international law – it is a war crime and symptom of a continuing two-year genocide perpetrated by the Israeli state and supported by Western nations supplying weapons, military training and intelligence,” Clarken added.

Oxfam said the killing came amid a wave of attacks on humanitarian organisations.
In recent days, Israeli strikes destroyed the offices of Al Ataa, a women’s association, and multiple Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS) facilities, including its main medical centre in northern Gaza.

PMRS, which had been treating thousands of patients daily, said the destruction of its remaining centres has left communities without access to vital services, including maternal healthcare, nutrition support, and specialist treatments.

The group said the losses amounted to “a message of extermination”

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