Two staff members at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights killed

Two female staff members at the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights have been killed by Israeli bombing in the past week, the rights organisation B’Tselem announced on Tuesday. 

In a statement posted on X, the organisation said “B'Tselem shares in the deep sorrow of our friends and colleagues from the Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza, for the killing of two of its female staff in Israeli bombings on the Gaza Strip in recent days.”

One of those killed was identified as ;lawyer Nur Nasr Abu al-Nur, who was killed along with seven members of her family, including her two-year-old daughter, in an Israeli bombardment of her family's home in Rafah on 20 February. 

Another lawyer, Dana Yari was also killed on 22 February, along with around forty people, mostly her family members, in an aerial attack on the family's home in Deir al-Balah.