Another Australian aid worker has reportedly been shot at in Gaza following the ongoing fallout from the deadly drone strikes which killed Zomi Frankcom and six aid workers on April 1.
Tess Ingram, a UNICEF aid worker and former journalist from Australia, has said she is “really lucky” be alive after shots were fired at her vehicle near a checkpoint in Gaza.
Ms Ingram had been travelling in a convoy of aid vehicles on a “coordinated mission” to deliver fuel and water wells when they were shot at.
The convoy was stopped at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint when shots were fired.
"We were waiting there when gunfire broke out in the vicinity," she said.
"We were instructed to wait in a holding point just south of the checkpoint. While we were there gunfire broke out in the vicinity.
Ms Ingram said the gunfire "appeared" to come from the checkpoint where there were civilians turning and running from the sudden threat.
"The bullets hit our car. (They) hit the window and the door of where I was sitting as well as the bonnet of the car," she said.
"(The civilians) then turned and ran in the other direction.
“It is an armoured vehicles so that’s why… it doesn’t look so bad.”
"But we were really lucky, if we hadn’t have been in an armoured vehicle that would have shattered the window and things could have been a lot worse."
Ms Ingram confessed she did not see the source of the gunfire. She said both Hamas and Israel were aware of the aid mission.
"This is just another example of how unsafe it is for humanitarian aid workers and how missions like these are made impossible," she said.
UNICEF has said it is unable to deliver humanitarian services while aid workers have their lives placed at risk.
Israel is facing growing outrage on the international stage as more than 200 humanitarian aid workers have allegedly been killed since the conflict began.
The Israeli Defense Force published findings of its investigation into the strike that killed Australian Zomi Frankcom and seven others.
The investigation concluded “misidentification” and serious error in a “terrible chain of events” caused the tragedy.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong have expressed discontent with the response.
UNICEF have not elaborated on the damage sustained to the armoured vehicle but said it has raised the incident with authorities.
"Sadly, humanitarians continue to face risks in delivering lifesaving aid. Unless humanitarian aid workers are protected, in accordance with [international humanitarian law], humanitarian aid cannot reach people in need," UNICEF declared in a statement.
The aid mission has been aborted before supplies were delivered.
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