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Netanyahu says Israel mistakenly killed seven individuals working for assist group as international condemnation of strikes grows.

Here’s how issues stand on Tuesday, April 3, 2024:

Fighting and humanitarian disaster

• Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu mentioned Israel mistakenly killed seven individuals working for the help group World Central Kitchen (WCK) in central Gaza. Describing the air strike as “unintended” and “tragic”, he mentioned that “these things happen in wartime”.
• The strike on the WCK convoy killed residents of Australia, Poland and the United Kingdom in addition to Palestinians and a twin citizen of the United States and Canada.
• An investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad verification company discovered that the separate Israeli strikes on three WCK automobiles had been intentional.
• At least 196 humanitarian employees – together with greater than 175 United Nations employees members – have been killed in Gaza since October, in line with the UN, and the Palestinian group Hamas has beforehand accused Israel of focusing on assist distribution websites.
• The US-based charity mentioned it will pause its work in Gaza, and the United Arab Emirates, which has financed the seaborne meals deliveries to Gaza that WCK distributed, mentioned it was placing the shipments on maintain pending security ensures from Israel and a full investigation.
• UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese mentioned that she believes the Israeli navy “intentionally killed” the seven assist employees in Gaza to scare humanitarian aid donors and make sure the continued hunger of Palestinians.
• A UN-World Bank report has positioned the infrastructure harm within the Gaza Strip at $18.5bn within the first 4 months of Israel’s assault.

Diplomacy and regional tensions

• In his strongest criticism but of Washington’s ally, US President Joe Biden mentioned he was “outraged and heartbroken” by the assault on the WCK convoy and referred to as on Israel to do extra to guard assist employees.
• Israel’s investigation of the incident “must be swift, it must bring accountability, and its findings must be made public”, Biden mentioned.
• Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak informed Netanyahu that the UK was appalled by the deaths, which included three Britons, and demanded a radical and clear impartial investigation as worldwide condemnation of the assault grows.
• Kenneth Roth, the previous govt director of Human Rights Watch (HRW), referred to as Biden’s criticism of Israel’s failure to guard assist employees in Gaza “empty words”.
• The household of Zomi Frankcom, the Australian WCK employee killed in Gaza, mentioned she leaves a “legacy of compassion, bravery and love for all those in her orbit”.
• The State of Palestine has written to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres requesting renewed consideration of its utility for full UN membership.
• The White House cancelled a Ramadan iftar meal after a number of Muslim Americans declined the invitation in protest of Biden’s help for Israel’s conflict on Gaza, in line with two individuals conversant in the matter.
• In Israel, hundreds of individuals protested in opposition to the federal government demanding it safe a ceasefire deal and make sure the launch of captives being held in Gaza, whereas additionally calling for early elections.
• The US reiterated that it was not concerned in an air strike on an Iranian consulate in Damascus, Syria, that left not less than 13 individuals lifeless.

Violence within the occupied West Bank

• Four Israeli law enforcement officials have been reported injured in a automobile ramming assault west of town of Qalqilya within the occupied West Bank,  Al Jazeera Arabic reported on Wednesday.
• According to Israeli police, the attackers additionally tried to stab Israeli forces at a navy checkpoint and one in every of two perpetrators of the automobile ramming was killed close to the city of Kochav Yair.
• Nightly raids by the Israeli navy on Palestinian properties within the occupied West Bank continued with troopers reported to have entered the cities of Azzun and Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya metropolis.