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More now from Harding. Two charities - Save the Children and Islamic Relief - say they will continue operating in Gaza, after an Israeli air strike killed seven aid workers in the territory.
He says the three British men's roles were to "to ensure that the convoy follows its safety procedures, that it stays on the correct route, and indeed to be on hand should anything untoward occur". Save the Children says its staff will "continue working around the clock" despite a "horrendous trend" of attacks on aid workers.
He adds that the men would have also worked to "remove people from immediate danger" in the event that the convoy came under fire. The charity says it "takes all possible measures to keep our staff safe", but "that is getting harder".
He also says World Central Kitchen are “extremely Meanwhile, Islamic Relief says its staff remain "at constant risk alongside every other civilian in Gaza", with every aid delivery being "difficult and perilous".
experienced” and have a “long history of successful activities of this kind”.
Asked what information the charity would have given the
Israeli military to minimise the chances of a strike on the convoy, he says: “They
have been liaising very closely with all the interlocutors in the area to ensure
that the correct protocols were followed and all information was known.”
He says aid organisations "will be looking very closely at what happened".
"Those who are willing to continue to operate in this way will be making sure they put as many risk control measures in place as possible to minimise risk," he adds.
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