Israel kills pregnant aid worker and two infant children in airstrike

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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.

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”

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

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

Absolutely horrifying. Beyond words.

So so many of these stories, so so sad

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.

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

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

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.

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

Are you actually pretending a besieged, stateless population under occupation is the same as Nazi Germany?

We all know who the victims are- and it’s not the state carrying out one of the heaviest bombardments of a civilian population in modern history. Whole families erased, 20,000 children without mercy.

That’s a misrepresentation of international law. Civilian sites don’t ‘lose protection’ on a whim- Article 52 of Additional Protocol I requires clear evidence, warnings, and strict proportionality.

Leveling entire hospitals or schools with no independent verification is not an ‘exception,’ it’s a textbook violation. The unprecedented number of aid workers killed (more than in any modern conflict) demonstrates a pattern, not accident. And the idea that a besieged, stateless population must simply ‘surrender’ ignores the most basic principle of international law: civilians are not bargaining chips. Framing genocide as ‘game over’ rhetoric doesn’t make it lawful.

How has starting a war worked out for Hamas and the people they're supposed to be governing? They're not children, they can understand actions have consequences, or is this racism of low expectations on your part? Where's their accountability for starting a war and then failing to end it, deliberately increasing the bloodshed and needless deaths

Maybe if you actually care about Palestinians you can lay the blame for the war they're in with those that caused it. Hamas.

And they have a state now, maybe they can act like one

It’s horrifying. I can’t understand how anyone can support what Netanyahu is doing. October 7th was horrific and brutal and vile, but it does not justify this. It’s counterproductive anyway - what do they think this former husband and father will do now his entire family has been wiped out? I doubt he’ll have much sympathy for diplomacy and peace deals. Every grieving survivor is potentially another threat to Israel - they are stoking the fire over and over again 😖

It's not the civilians that surrender, it's their elected government, Hamas. Just like the German government surrendered in the two WWs

Targeting aid workers has no military advantage

Israel does give advance warning, they're the only military power that does, it's on record

'Civilians are not bargaining chips' exactly, you're correct, so Hamas should free the hostages. And you're right, Palestinians are besieged, by Hamas who won't release the hostages and end the war

I wonder what the people who survived October 7th will do now their children or entire families have been wiped out? I doubt they'll have much sympathy for diplomacy and peace deals. Every grieving survivor is potentially another threat to Gaza - they are stoking the fire over and over again 😖

Did they ? Hilter held on till the bitter end and then he committed suicide rather than surrender. Then there was the nero decree.

He was driven strongly by his ideologies not driven by a goal of protecting ordinary German civilians. We see this in so many wars. Both Hamas and the current Israeli government are driven by extremist ideology, neither put the long term safety and security of civilians first.

Equating Hamas with the elected government of Palestinians is disingenuous at best. Gazans haven’t had a free election since 2006, and voting under blockade and occupation is hardly democratic consent. To compare them with a sovereign state like Nazi Germany is historically illiterate.

As for ‘no military advantage’ in targeting aid workers- exactly. Which is why the unprecedented slaughter of humanitarians documented by the UN, WHO and every major NGO cannot be brushed aside as random tragedy. A military advantage isn’t the only motive; intimidation and dismantling of civil society are also tactics of war.

The claim that ‘Israel warns civilians’ would be dark comedy if it weren’t so grotesque. Dropping leaflets telling families to flee when there’s nowhere safe to go, and then bombing the evacuation routes, is not ‘humanitarian concern ‘ it’s forced displacement in violation of international law.

And on hostages: yes, they must be freed. But to pretend 2 million civilians can be collectively starved, bombed, and displaced until one armed group capitulates is the logic of collective punishment- which is explicitly illegal under Article 33 of the Geneva Conventions. You don’t get to excuse the murder of 20,000 children by pointing to 100 hostages. That’s not international law. That’s moral bankruptcy dressed up as legal argument.

You are being a bit silly now. We are already seeing this scenario play out.

The horrors of 7/10 that impacted every Israeli made the suffering in Gaza now justifiable in the minds of many Israelis.

Nothing justified 7/10, nothing justifies this response.

You clearly have no understanding of urban warfare. Israel are indiscriminate which is abhorrent. Any other army from an civilised nation involved in this type of combat are very precise and adhere to international law.

It's far more comprehensive than just dropping leaflets. Actually go and research it

Ok, so don't displace people. Let them live in a war zone? Would that be better?

Honestly, it's laughable that some people expect there to be no civilian casualties in an urban war. Welcome to the real world. Again, the responsibility for this happening lays solely with Hamas. What did they, or anyone else, expect to happen after the October 7th massacre and promising to repeat it until Israel ceased to exist? It's become existential for Israel, they have a duty to protect their citizens from further massacres by a jihadist death cult.

No one is excusing the deaths of anyone apart from pro-Palestinians who blame October 7th on Gaza apparently being 'besieged', as if anything justifies such a massacre. If you think there's no justification for the war, despite there being threats of further massacres of Israelis, then there was certainly no justification for October 7th being committed by Palestinians. I say Palestinians because it wasn't just Hamas. They may have planned it and broken down the barrier at the border but it was ordinary Palestinians who had spied on their Israeli employers for years and fed back detailed information to Hamas, and thousands of Palestinian citizens poured into Israel behind Hamas on October 7th

Israel's government places value on the lives of it's citizens. Gaza's government is happy to martyr all their citizens and their leaders openly say so on TV

Targeting aid workers has no military advantage

They target aid workers most likely as part of a strategy that aims to distroy the society in Gaza. It all contributes to a breakdown of society.

It also makes it difficult for aid workers to operate. This means that more people die. Which again fits in with the goals here.

66,054 casualties, including enemy combatants, out of a population of 2.1 million in a war that has spanned two years shows that you have no understanding of what indiscriminate actually means