EU diplomacy chief condemns Israeli strike on aid workers in Gaza

“I condemn the attack and call for an investigation. Despite all demands to protect civilians and humanitarian aid workers, we see new innocent victims,” ​​wrote Mr. Borrell on the X social network.

Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, announced Tuesday that he had asked Israel’s ambassador to Poland for “urgent explanations” after an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip killed seven aid workers, including a Polish citizen.

“I have personally asked the Israeli ambassador, Yacov Livne, for urgent explanations,” R. Sikorski said on social networks, adding that he expressed his “condolences to the family of our brave volunteer.”

The minister said Poland would launch its own investigation into the aid worker’s death.

Anthony Albanese, Australia’s prime minister, confirmed on Tuesday that one of several aid workers killed in a strike in the Gaza Strip was an Australian citizen.

Mr Albanese said volunteer Zomi Frankcom had done “extremely valuable work” helping to distribute food in the besieged Gaza Strip.

“This is completely unacceptable. Australia expects full responsibility for the deaths of the aid workers,” Mr Albanese said, after offering his condolences to Mr Frankcom’s family.

“I didn’t have the honor of knowing her,” he added.

“She just wanted to help through this charity. It says everything about the character of this young woman,” continued the Prime Minister.

Delivered food to the Gaza Strip

Food aid organization World Central Kitchen said on Tuesday that seven of its workers were killed in an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip.

“World Central Kitchen is shocked to confirm that seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in the Gaza Strip,” the US-based charity said in a statement, adding that the dead were “from Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom, the United States and Canada, and the Palestinian Territories.” .

World Central Kitchen is one of two non-governmental organizations leading the effort to ship aid from Cyprus. It is also involved in the construction of a temporary marina in the Gaza Strip.

As the war continues for six months, the United Nations has warned that all 2.4 million the population of this territory is at risk of starvation, Israel has come under enormous international pressure to increase the flow of humanitarian aid to the blockaded section.

A UN-sponsored report released on March 19 warned that half of the population of the Gaza Strip is catastrophically short of food, and that unless urgent measures are taken, famine could strike in the north of the territory at any time.

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