Mourners pray before the bodies of workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees who were killed earlier when their truck was reportedly hit by bombardment, during the funeral at the Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd.  — AFP
Mourners pray before the bodies of workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees who were killed earlier when their truck was reportedly hit by bombardment, during the funeral at the Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd. — AFP

 A man wearing a vest of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees reacts as people carry one of the bodies of UNRWA workers who were killed earlier when their truck was reportedly hit by bombardment, during the funeral at the Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd.  — AFP
A man wearing a vest of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees reacts as people carry one of the bodies of UNRWA workers who were killed earlier when their truck was reportedly hit by bombardment, during the funeral at the Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd. — AFP

 People carry one of the bodies of workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees who were killed earlier when their truck was reportedly hit by bombardment, during the funeral at the Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd.  — AFP
People carry one of the bodies of workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees who were killed earlier when their truck was reportedly hit by bombardment, during the funeral at the Aqsa Martyrs’ Hospital in Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd. — AFP

 Men secure on the back of a trailer a destroyed truck that was reportedly used by workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which was fired upon by Israeli forces earlier, along Gaza’s main Salah al-Din road outside Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd.  — AFP
Men secure on the back of a trailer a destroyed truck that was reportedly used by workers of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which was fired upon by Israeli forces earlier, along Gaza’s main Salah al-Din road outside Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd. — AFP

 United Nations’ vehicles escort a destroyed truck that was reportedly used by workers of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which was fired upon by Israeli forces earlier, as it is carried by a trailer vehicle along Gaza’s main Salah al-Din road outside Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd.  — AFP
United Nations’ vehicles escort a destroyed truck that was reportedly used by workers of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, which was fired upon by Israeli forces earlier, as it is carried by a trailer vehicle along Gaza’s main Salah al-Din road outside Deir el-Balah in the centre of the Gaza Strip on October 23rd. — AFP

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