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Israel-Gaza latest news: Three British workers killed in Israeli strike on Gaza aid convoy - BBC News Israel-Gaza latest news: Three British workers killed in Israeli strike on Gaza aid convoy - BBC News
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The White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre says President Biden has spoken by phone with World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder chef José Andrés and expressed that he was "heartbroken" by the news of the air strike that killed seven of its workers last night. Tom Bateman
Biden wanted to "share his deepest condolences and is grieving with the entire WCK family", the press secretary goes on to say. State Department Correspondent
She says it was important to recognise the contribution the WCK has made to the people of Gaza and to people around the world. The co-ordination complaints have been pointed out by the Biden
administration - publicly in gentle tones - to Israel since at least January,
along with appeals for Israel to get more food to starving people.
Yesterday’s strike, and the impact it will have on further aid supplies,
deepens the crisis, with Gaza on the brink of famine.
The White House has just said it is “outraged” by the strikes.
But pressed about
whether it would lead to conditioning US arms supplies to Israel, the
administration’s reaction hasn’t veered from previous similar messages - which
has been to describe this as a tragic incident, point to
"deconfliction" problems and the need for more aid access, while
calling on Israel to investigate.
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