A United Nations employee has been killed in the Gaza Strip after a car was fired upon, a UN spokesman said on Monday.
This is the first foreign UN employee to be killed in Gaza, the spokesman said. Another UN employee was injured in the incident. The nationalities and gender of the victims are unknown
The car in which the employees were travelling to a hospital was clearly marked as a UN vehicle, he said.
In total, almost 200 UN employees have been killed since the beginning of the Gaza war - so far all of them have been Palestinians.
The EU Commissioner for Crisis Management Janez Lenarčič wrote on Monday on X, "I condemn today's attack on a humanitarian convoy while on a mission of saving lives in Gaza. My condolences to the family of the killed worker."