Israel's military chief, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, has blamed the deaths on a 'misidentification'.
The deaths of the World Central Kitchen workers threatened to set back efforts by the US and other countries to open a maritime corridor for aid from Cyprus to help ease the desperate conditions in northern Gaza.Palestinians carry the body of one of the World Central Kitchen workers at Al Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah.
Israel has allowed only a trickle of food and supplies into Gaza's devastated north, where experts say famine is imminent. Israel's military chief, Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, announced the results of a preliminary investigation early on Wednesday. At least one of the vehicles had the charity's logo printed across its roof to make it identifiable from the air, and the ordinance punched a large hole through the roof.Palestinians inspect a vehicle with the logo of the World Central Kitchen wrecked by an Israeli airstrike in Deir al Balah in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday.
Israeli forces have repeatedly struck ambulances and vehicles carrying aid, as well as relief organisation offices and UN shelters, claiming that armed fighters were in them. More than 32,900 Palestinians have been killed in the war, around two-thirds of them women and children, according to Gaza's Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants in its count.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak told Netanyahu that he was "appalled" by the workers' deaths and described the situation in Gaza as "increasingly intolerable". The deaths sent a further chill through UN agencies and other aid groups that have said for months that sending truck convoys around Gaza - particularly in the north - has been extremely difficult because of the military's failure to either grant permission or ensure safe passage.The US and other countries have been working to set up the sea passage from Cyprus to get around the difficulties.It and the United Arab Emirates sent a pilot shipment last month.
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