Doctors Without Borders nurse Hussein Alnajjar, killed by shrapnel from an airstrike near his tent

Hussein Alnajjar, a nurse working for Doctors Without Borders, died of shrapnel injuries on September 16 after an Israeli airstrike hit near his tent, also injuring his nephew and sister-in-law. He had worked in Doctors Without Borders clinics in Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis since January 2024. He had previously worked alongside Doctors Without Borders teams as a sterilization technician in a limb reconstruction project at Al-Awda Hospital.

Hussein was a husband and a father to three young children. Doctors Without Borders said he was eagerly looking forward to seeing his brother, whom he supported financially, finally graduate from medical school in Egypt.

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