WASHINGTON: American Air Force senior airman Larry Hebert will begin a hunger strike to highlight the miseries facing Gaza’s children, Arab media reported on Monday. Earlier, a member of the US Air Force set himself on fire in front of the Israeli embassy in Washington in a protest against Israel’s war in Gaza. Later on, he had passed away.
Meanwhile, head of World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said an Israeli attack on a hospital in Gaza killed four people and wounded seventeen.
In a statement via social media, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that WHO team was on a mission at Al-Aqsa Hospital in the Gaza Strip, when a camp in the complex was struck by an Israeli attack.
Today active-duty Air Force Senior Airman Larry Hebert will begin a hunger strike to highlight the plight of the starving children of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/qRyVwBtsWS
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The airstrike at the hospital was seen by a WHO team sent there to assess needs and to collect hatcheries for the Gaza, said Tedros.
Gaza Health Ministry said on Sunday that over 32,782 Palestinian people mostly women and children, have been killed in the Israeli brutal attacks in Gaza since October 7. It further said that more than 75,298 people have been injured in the Gaza Strip.
