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British aid worker killed in Gaza will be remembered as a hero, say family - BBC News British aid worker killed in Gaza will be remembered as a hero, say family - BBC News
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Yolande Knell Nick Eardley
Middle East correspondent Political correspondent
In terms of exactly what happened, we know that this was a precise strike on The UK foreign secretary says an investigation into the deaths of aid workers in Gaza must happen "very, very quickly".
this convoy of three vehicles, two of them armoured and bearing on their roofs Speaking in Brussels, Lord Cameron says he welcomes Israel pledging a full, urgent and transparent inquiry.
the large, distinctive saucepan logo of World Central Kitchen (WCK). He spoke to his Israeli counterpart, Israel Katz, after the death of three UK citizens.
This team had just left a warehouse, where they had been unloading 100 Lord Cameron says that Katz had talked about getting more aid into Gaza - including up to 500 trucks a day.
tonnes of food aid that had just arrived by sea. "We've been promised these things before - this really needs to happen," Lord Cameron says.
The Israeli military is claiming that this was a mistake resulting from poor He adds that the UK would watch "very closely" to ensure aid workers could travel safely around Gaza.
co-ordination between troops in the field and aid organisation
officials. But there are big questions about what went wrong.
Israel’s prime minister said “this happens in war” and that “a thorough
inquiry” was being conducted to prevent a recurrence.
But there are some Israeli media reports - such as in Haaretz newspaper –
suggesting that this also shows there was also poor discipline with officers and
soldiers violating regulations and orders.
There is now growing
international pressure for better mechanisms so that humanitarian workers can
operate effectively and safely.
Some Gazans have woken up wondering how they are going to feed
their children today without WCK - they had 67 kitchens across
Gaza, serving some 350,000 people a day but those operations are now suspended.
When it comes to the maritime route bringing in aid from Cyprus, there is
now an awful situation where some 240 tonnes of desperately needed food
supplies are being sent back to Larnaca port.
WCK had
only offloaded one barge from a four-vessel flotilla which had just arrived off
the coast of Gaza when they came under attack. For now, there is nobody
else who can bring that aid in by sea.
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