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The WHO has suspended medical evacuations from Gaza to Egypt after a “security incident” left a contract worker dead, with Israel saying Tuesday its soldiers opened fire while facing “an immediate threat”.World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on X late Monday that the UN health agency was “devastated to confirm that a person contracted to provide services to the organization in Gaza was killed today during a security incident.”For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app.Two staff members who were also present were not injured, he added.WHO did not elaborate, but said the incident was “under investigation by the relevant authorities”.Israel’s mission in Geneva meanwhile posted on X Tuesday that a day earlier in southern Gaza “IDF troops identified an unmarked vehicle approaching them and posing an immediate threat,” it said, stressing that “troops fired warning shots” in response.“The vehicle continued to accelerate toward
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