Four killed were in lead vehicle of an Anera aid convoy bound for Emirati Red Crescent Hospital
Four killed were in lead vehicle of an Anera aid convoy bound for Emirati Red Crescent Hospital in Rafah Internally displaced Palestinians inspect the area after a ground military operation by Israel i forces in the Khan Younis, southern Gaza, Photograph: Haitham Imad/EPAThe four Palestinians were in the lead vehicle of an Anera aid convoy bound for the Emirati Red Crescent Hospital in Rafah in southern Gaza, the aid group said in a statement on Friday.
Soon after the convoy left the Israel-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, four Palestinians from the community “took control of the leading vehicle, citing concern that the route was unsafe and at risk of being looted,” Anera said. “Israeli authorities allege that the lead car was carrying numerous weapons. Every initial report from those at the scene indicate that no weapons were present,” the organisation said. A plan agreed with Israeli authorities called for unarmed security guards in the convoy. The four had not been vetted nor co-ordinated with Israeli authorities, but the convoy did not perceive them as a threat, Anera said.Far-right presence in Israel’s coalition fuels speculation over motive behind assaults on West BankAnera said there was no warning or communication before the Israeli air strike. No Anera staff were injured. After the four were killed, the rest of the convoy delivered the aid, it said. said: “A number of armed assailants seized control of the vehicle in the front of the convoy... and began to lead it. “After the takeover and further verification that a precise strike on the armed assailants’ vehicle could be carried out, a strike was conducted,” the IDF said. The Israeli military and the Israeli embassy in Washington could not immediately be reached for further comment.. In April, three Israeli strikes hit a convoy of aid vehicles, killing seven World Central Kitchen staff. The United Nations World Food Programme said this week that one of its vehicles was hit by 10 bullets near an Israeli military checkpoint.Israel’s subsequent assault on the Hamas-governed enclave has since killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to the local ministry for heath. Nearly the entire Gaza population of 2.3 million has been displaced and the enclave has a hunger crisis. Israel faces genocide allegations at theFar-right presence in Israel’s coalition fuels speculation over motive behind assaults on West Bank'It's his right to be treated': Gaza records first polio case in 25 years‘She couldn’t have done better’: Leaving Cert student with maximum points misses out on college course due to lotteryChoctaw nation unveil statue marking ‘eternal bond’ with Ireland‘Us, posh? Never’: British elites claim they’re definitely, maybe into the hobbies of common peopleWhat’s your parenting style? Kirstie Allsopp? Burke family? Or make it up as you go along?
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