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Tel Aviv : An Indian national, Waibhav Anil Kale, a former Indian Army personnel, has been identified as the United Nations (UN) aid worker killed while on route from the Rafah region to a hospital in Khan Younis.
The announcement of the deceased’s identity was made by Farhan Haq, Deputy Spokesperson of the United Nations Secretary-General, on Monday night. Kale had recently joined the UN as a security service coordinator in Gaza.
Sources in the UN agencies told IANS that Kale was travelling in a vehicle marked as that of the United Nations.
However, the UN sources said that it was not unclear who fired at the vehicle in which Waibhav Anil Kale was travelling with another UN aid worker.
This marks the first such UN death in the Gaza conflict.
The IDF has already said that it is probing the firing and the death of the UN aid worker. In a statement late Monday night, IDF said that the attack occurred in an active combat zone and that it was investigating the attack and death of the UN aid worker.
