Seven aid workers from the World Central Kitchen, including a British man, have been killed in an Israeli air strike in Gaza. The team from the charity and their Palestinian driver were killed in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah.
James Henderson, 33, was riding in a clearly marked aid convoy amid the strike. He is one of three British aid workers to have been killed by the IDF drone attackJames Henderson has been named as the first of three British workers killed in an Israeli drone attack on a food aid convoy in Gaza yesterday.
Henderson was among seven people, including two other Brits, who were killed in the Israeli attack on the convoy as it travelled along Al-Rashid road between Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis in central Gaza.It comes as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admitted his forces carried out the drone strikes and insisted that officials 'will do everything for this not to happen again'.
A Palestinian man rides a bicycle past a damaged vehicle where employees from the World Central Kitchen , including foreigners, were killed in an Israeli airstrike Another vehicle was missing most of its rear end after being hit by the Israeli munitions, with charred debris littering the roadside in harrowing images.Writing on X, Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron said: 'British Nationals are reported to have been killed, we are urgently working to verify this information and will provide full support to their families.
Harrowing footage shared online appeared to show the bodies of the dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital. Several of them wore protective gear with the charity's logo. 'The incident will be investigated in the Fact Finding and Assessment Mechanism: an independent, professional, and expert body.'The team from the charity and their Palestinian driver were killed in central Gaza's Deir al-Balah when their vehicle was struck on Monday, local media reported, after the group helped deliver food and other supplies to the region
People inspect the site where World Central Kitchen workers were killed in Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip, Tuesday, April 2, 2024 'When you talk about food and water, people don't want a solution one week from now, one month from now. The solution has to be now,' Andrés is quoted as saying on the group's website.
The Australian victim was named this morning as Lalzawmi 'Zomi' Frankcom, 44, from Melbourne, while the Polish victim was named as Damian Sobol. WCK has described the loss of life as a 'tragedy' and, in a statement posted online, said 'humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER'.
The car was hit by an Israeli strike just after crossing from northern Gaza, Mahmoud Thabet, a paramedic from the Palestinian Red Crescent who was on the team that brought the bodies to the hospital, has claimed. People stand near a destroyed car of the NGO World Central Kitchen along Al Rashid road, between Deir Al Balah and Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 2Palestinians are seen gathering around the burned and destroyed Al-Shifa Hospital in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on April 1, 2024. Many buildings including the hospital have been heavily damaged under airstrikes
'The IDF makes extensive efforts to enable the safe delivery of humanitarian aid, and has been working closely with WCK in their vital efforts to provide food and humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza.' 'But we haven't yet had this confirmed and I think the IDF are reviewing this, probably as we speak.'She said: 'One of the key things is trying to ensure we get more aid into Gaza, so if one of the charities working on the ground has suspended, then that's obviously deeply concerning.'James Elder, spokesman for the United Nation's Children's Fund , said the aid worker deaths underlined how dangerous the situation in Gaza has become.
Passports of the officials working at the US-based international volunteer aid organization World Central Kitchen who were killed in an Israeli airstrike on April 1, 2024 are seen after the attackIsraeli troops, in a photo released by the Israeli army on April 1, 2024, are seen operating in the Gaza Strip amid the continuing battle with Hamas
The US has touted the sea route as a new way to deliver desperately needed aid to northern Gaza, where several hundred Palestinians face imminent famine, largely cut off from the rest of the territory by Israeli forces . The military has described the raid on Shifa Hospital as a major battlefield victory in the nearly six-month war, and officials said Israeli troops killed 200 militants in the operation, though the claim that they were all militants could not be confirmed.
While Iran's consular building was levelled in the attack, according to Syria's SANA state news agency, its main embassy building remained intact. UK Forces airdrop more food supplies to civilians in Gaza on April 1, 2024 as part of the action to address the plight of the Palestinian people
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