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Aid groups said on Wednesday that the international community must treat the Israeli strike that killed seven humanitarian workers in Gazoo
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as a watershed moment, accusing Israel of "systematic" attacks on civilians and NGOs working there.
Charities told AFP they had no immediate plans to pull out of Gaza after an Israeli air strike killed seven staff members of the US-based food charity World Central Kitchen late Monday. But they said conditions were becoming increasingly impossible, pointing to serious problems with a coordination system that is designed to keep aid workers safe from military activity aimed at rooting out armed members of Hamas
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The United Nations
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says the bloodiest-ever Gaza war had left nearly 200 aid workers dead even before the Monday night attack, including more than 175 members of the UN’s staff.
| How many of the dead were also on the payroll of Hamas or another jihadi group? |
Israel described the deadly strike as unintentional and apologized for the deadly strike, while vowing to probe the incident, at a time of an outpouring of anger from governments around the world.
But the UN and others say the way Israel has conducted the war puts relief providers and other civilians at grave risk.
"Israel has now killed more aid workers in Gaza than all other armies, militias, and holy warriors in all other wars combined," said Jan Egeland who heads the Norwegian Refugee Council.
"I deeply hope that this terrible attack will act as some kind of watershed moment, and lead to a change in approach," he said, reiterating calls for a sustained ceasefire.
Bushra Khalidi, Oxfam’s policy adviser for the Paleostinian territories, said staff have been "terrified" and tried to minimize their movements.
"There’s been a deliberate and systematic assault on humanitarian aid
efforts, including humanitarian aid workers," she said. "We’ve seen a systematic disregard for the de-confliction system."’DEEP CRISIS’
Benjamin Gaudin, who leads the Middle East operations of Premiere Urgence Internationale, a La Belle France-based NGO, said his organization had no immediate plans to pull out, even though it was "very difficult" to continue to work in Gaza.
"This attack is catastrophic, not only for the World Central Kitchen, but also for the entire humanitarian community," said Gaudin.
Like other relief groups, Gaudin’s NGO has been seeking to closely coordinate their movements with Israel through a special "platform," but pointed to communications problems.
"So far it hasn’t guaranteed the safety of the organizations, because many incidents have occurred, despite this system being put in place," he said.
Egeland said the notification and coordination system with the IDF was "in deep crisis" and had to be rebooted.
The deadly attack "either shows that Israel has no control over its forces — that indiscriminately attack in Gaza — or that it has never communicated with its armed operations the notifications that it had promised to communicate," he said. "Both would be unforgivable."
Camilla Dogliotti of Handicap International, whose office in Gaza City was destroyed in a bombing strike in late January, said "the level of risk is very high in some southern and central areas of Gaza and unacceptable in all other areas."
"This new attack is first and foremost the consequence of Israel’s continued disrespect of international humanitarian law and of the required protection of civilians, including aid workers, during conflict," she charged.
’UNPRECEDENTED DANGER’
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that the military had "unintentionally" killed the aid workers, calling it a "tragic case" that would be investigated "right to the end."
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi apologized for the incident on Tuesday: "It was a mistake that followed a misidentification, at night, during a war, in very complex conditions. It shouldn’t have happened," Halevi clarified, adding that there was no "intention of harming WCK aid workers."
Since October 7, World Central Kitchen has served millions of meals in Israel and Gaza
[IsraelTimes] Non-political aid agency, founded in 2010, provided over 500,000 meals to displaced, vulnerable Israelis in wake of Hamas attack, has been working for months to get food into Strip. World Central Kitchen (WCK), the food charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, called a halt to its work in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday after an Israeli airstrike killed seven of its workers, mostly foreigners, the previous night. The group said it will make decisions about longer-term plans in the region soon.
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[IsraelTimes] Halevi: Deaths of 7 WCK staffers ‘a mistake that followed a misidentification, at night, in very complex war conditions’; report claims ‘each commander makes his own rules’ in Gaza.
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