- Zomi Frankcom, 44, killed in Israeli airstrike on Central Gaza
- Four other foreign aid workers and a Palestinian driver also killed
An Australian humanitarian worker has been 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.
Footage posted to social media showed the bodies of the five victims at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah.
Hospital staff held up bloodied and torn passports belonging to three of the dead – one British, Polish and 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 held up bloodied and torn passports belonging to three of the dead – one British, Polish and Australian (pictured)
The nationality of the fourth aid worker is currently unclear.
Ms 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 chairty posted on X.
‘This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER.’
More to come.
