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The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that one of its staff was killed in Gaza on Tuesday alongside her six-month-old baby.

Dima Abdullatif Mohammed Alhaj, 29, was a critical part of the WHO’s trauma and emergency team and had been part of the organisation since 2019, it said. She studied at the University of Glasgow as part of the Erasmus exchange programme in 2018-19, it said.

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Alhaj was killed when her parents’ house in southern Gaza, where she had evacuated from Gaza City, was bombed, the WHO said in a statement. More than 50 family and community members sheltering in the same house also were reportedly killed.

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