Tributes have been paid to one of the British aid workers killed in the Israeli air strike in Gaza. James Kirby was among seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers killed in strikes by the Israel Defense Forces on Monday.
17.03.2024 - 04:51 / dailyrecord.co.uk
An aid worker has revealed the horror being suffered by children and families on the frontline of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
Gill Moffat described loved ones being torn apart and met one child who told her: “I like school but my teacher is dead.”
The 60-year-old teacher is a volunteer for the British Red Cross and works in their psychosocial support team which provides emotional help for those caught up in crisis overseas.
She was deployed to Egypt to help British nationals trying to escape the warzone via the border at Rafah.
Gill said: “I can remember one family with young children whose house had been reduced to rubble.
“They’d been living in a house with about 70 people. The house was bombed and they ended up in a hospital corridor.
“The children had seen injured and dead people being brought in. Some of the children were very frightened. Anytime there was a noise, they were easily startled.”
Gill said they had to offer separate counselling to parents and children as both groups were affected by the horror of war in different ways.
Gill added: “These children have been bombed, they’ve fled for their lives. They needed the security of their mum and dad. We’d have two PST members, one would sit with the parents and the other with the children, far enough away that they couldn’t hear what their parents were saying but close enough to see them.”
Gill, from Aberdeen, was deployed to Cairo in Egypt at the end of October to work with the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office after the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory escalated.
In recent years, the British Red Cross teams have been deployed in Cyprus to meet people arriving in military aircraft from Sudan, helped Britons during the wildfires in
Tributes have been paid to one of the British aid workers killed in the Israeli air strike in Gaza. James Kirby was among seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers killed in strikes by the Israel Defense Forces on Monday.
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