<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Eleven workers with the U.N. Palestinian refugee agency have been killed in Israeli air strikes on the Gaza Strip since Saturday, and five members of the international Red Cross and Red Crescent have also been killed in the conflict, the organisations said on Wednesday.</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"We are very saddened to confirm that 11 UNRWA colleagues have been killed since 7 October in the Gaza Strip," UNWRA said in a statement.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It did not specify if they were Palestinian or foreign personnel but said they included five teachers at UNRWA schools, one gynecologist, one engineer, one psychological counselor and three support staff.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Some were killed in their homes with their families. UNRWA mourns this loss and is grieving with our colleagues and the families," it said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) said in a separate statement that five of its members - four in Gaza and one in Israel - had been killed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">IFRC said that four Palestine Red Crescent paramedics were killed when their ambulances were hit in two different incidents on Wednesday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Saturday, an ambulance driver for Magen David Adom, Israel's national emergency service, lost his life while driving an ambulance to treat the injured, IFRC said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) also said nearly 175,500 internally displaced people were sheltering in 88 of its schools across Gaza. Reuters</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>