The US on Wednesday mentioned it desires to see an Israeli investigation on the killing of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) help staff within the Gaza Strip completed as rapidly as doable.
“The Israelis have said to us and they’ve said publicly that they intend to conduct this investigation swiftly. We want to see it wrapped up as soon as possible,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller advised reporters.
Miller mentioned the US desires to see Israel put measures in place to forestall such incidents from occurring once more.
“They need to put in place better deconfliction and better coordination measures to protect humanitarian workers and to protect all the civilians on the ground,” he mentioned.
“And it is something that we have consistently said to them over the past few months that they need to improve their deconfliction measures and they need to improve their coordination measures,” he added.
WCK mentioned seven of its humanitarian help staff have been killed in an Israeli airstrike.
The staff have been nationals of Australia, Poland, the UK, Palestine, in addition to US-Canadian twin residents.
Despite coordinating actions with the Israeli military, the humanitarian group mentioned the convoy was hit because it was leaving a warehouse within the southern Gaza metropolis of Deir al-Balah, the place the workforce had unloaded greater than 100 tons of humanitarian meals help delivered to Gaza on a maritime route.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the assault as “tragic,” and mentioned it was “unintentional” and pledged an impartial inquiry.
Israel has waged a lethal navy offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7 cross-border assault by Hamas, which killed lower than 1,200 individuals.
Nearly 33,000 Palestinians have been killed and 75,577 injured amid mass destruction and shortages of requirements.
Israel has imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its inhabitants, significantly residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of hunger.
Source: www.anews.com.tr