Israel has faced calls to be excluded from the contest, which is being held in Sweden, over their retaliatory strikes after the attack by Hamas last October.
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Over 240 aid workers have died in Gaza since the beginning of the Hamas war, a UN Official has told The Independent. UN spokesperson Olga Cherevko who is currently in Rafah, has also described the “horrific” conditions people are living in. “The number of humanitarian workers that we’ve lost which is now over 240 people that have been killed, some of them in the line of duty.”