World Central Kitchen, a US-headquartered organisation, called the incident a ‘tragedy’ and reiterated that ‘humanitarian aid workers and civilians should never be a target’.
PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES - An Israeli strike killed several people delivering food aid to the besieged Gaza Strip on Monday, their organisation said, with the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory reporting that four of them were foreigners.
Hamas said the aid workers included"British, Australian and Polish nationalities, with the fourth nationality not known". Israel has come under immense international pressure to increase the flow of humanitarian aid into the blockaded strip after six months of war and stark warnings from the United Nations about the dire levels of hunger stalking all 2.4 million Gazans.
The world's top court has ordered Israel to"ensure urgent humanitarian assistance" in Gaza without delay, saying"famine is setting in". "There are more terrorists in the hospital than patients or medical staff," Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari said, adding that 900 people had been apprehended at the sprawling hospital complex, with over 500 of them"definitely" militants.
Several doctors and civilians at the damaged complex told AFP that at least 20 bodies had been found, some of which appeared to have been driven over by military vehicles.
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