MSF mourns our ninth colleague killed in Gaza

Bilal joined MSF as a hygiene agent in 2017 and played a major role in supporting people in need of medical care when we resumed work at our clinic in Gaza City in April 2024. He was 37 years old. In this tragic moment, our thoughts are with Bilal’s family, friends, and colleagues mourning his death.  

Jabalia: Anything that moved was shot

When we last heard from Bilal, he was running out of food and water and was stuck in his home with his relatives. They had tried to leave Jabalia, but the bombings were so intense that it was unsafe to move. On November 11, we learned from his brother that Bilal and his family were starving but were too scared to look for food or leave because anything that moved was shot.

MSF strongly condemns the killing of Bilal and his family in their home by Israeli forces. We can only imagine the terror they faced while they were trapped under siege and horrendous violence before they were killed. Bilal is the ninth MSF colleague to be killed in Gaza since the beginning of the war.

All over the Gaza Strip, people are still suffering and families continue to look for their missing relatives, fearing that they have been killed. Israel’s all-out war on Gaza has killed over 46,700 Palestinians, including 18,000 children, and has injured more than 110,000, while over 10,000 people are still missing.