The US National Security Council has urged Israel to investigate after seven members of the humanitarian organisation World Central Kitchen were killed in an air strike in Gaza on Monday night.
The organisation said on Tuesday that seven people had died in what it said was a strike by the Israel Defense Forces. The staff were travelling in a “deconflicted zone in two armoured cars branded with the WCK logo and a soft skin vehicle”, it added.
“Despite co-ordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse,” said WCK, adding that the team had just unloaded more than 100 tonnes of humanitarian food aid for Gaza, the besieged enclave where aid groups have warned of the risk of imminent famine.