Former Australian reporter among UNICEF workers fired on at Gaza checkpoint

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UNICEF says one of its vehicles was hit by "live ammunition" while waiting to enter North Gaza from the South on Wednesday.

Australian Financial Reviewshe was "really lucky" not to have been hit by bullets fired from an Israeli checkpoint.

A still from video shared by UNICEF appears to show bullet marks that struck a car carrying aid workers. She said the vehicle had left Rafa after some delays, before arriving at a designated holding point where UN vehicles are made to wait until the checkpoint is ready to receive them."Gunfire came from the direction of the checkpoint towards civilians, who then ran away from the checkpoint, and the gunfire hit us.

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