- Zomi Frankcom, 44, killed in Israeli airstrike in central Gaza
- Four other foreign aid workers and a Palestinian driver were also killed.
An Australian aid worker was killed in an airstrike in Gaza.
Lalzawmi ‘Zomi’ Frankcom, 44, from Melbourne, was killed along with three other international aid workers and a Palestinian driver, in central Gaza, while working with the World Central Kitchen charity on Monday.
Images posted on social media showed the bodies of the five victims at the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza city of Deir al-Balah.
Hospital staff retained the bloody and torn passports of three of the dead: a Briton, a Pole and an Australian.
Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom (pictured), 44, from Melbourne, was killed along with three other international aid workers and a Palestinian driver, in central Gaza, while working with the World Central Kitchen charity on Monday.
Hospital staff retained the bloody and torn passports of three of the dead: a Briton, a Pole and an Australian (pictured)
At the moment the nationality of the fourth cooperator is not clear.
Mrs Frankom had been working for the World Central Kitchen charity.
“We are aware of reports that members of the World Central Kitchen team have been killed in an IDF attack while working to support our humanitarian food delivery efforts in Gaza,” the president posted on X.
‘This is a tragedy. Aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER.’
WhatsNew2Day Australia has contacted the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade for comment.
More to come.