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Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says explanations provided by Israel about the killing of seven people working for the aid charity World Central Kitchen in a Gaza airstrike were "insufficient" and "unacceptable".Earlier this week, Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had called the incident "a tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed non-combatants", adding that "this happens in war".
As we reported earlier, multiple aid organisations, including the UN in recent hours, have said that they will be pausing operations in Gaza after an attack on a charity convoy killed seven aid workers. Sanchez, however, is demanding further details.
This includes the World Central Kitchen, which had 68 kitchens across the enclave, along with the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) and Project Hope, which provides healthcare aid. He says he is "awaiting a much stronger and more detailed clarification, after which we'll see what action to take".
These announcements have sparked increasing concern about the disruption of aid in Gaza, which is on the brink of a famine. World Central Kitchen was founded by Spanish American chef Jose Andres.
Half the population - about 1.1m people - are starving, according to the IPC classification. Before April, the UN's worst-case scenario estimated that the entire population will be in famine by July 2024.
Gaza has the "highest share of people facing high levels of acute food insecurity that the IPC initiative has ever classified for any given area or country," the UN has said.
Its most senior human rights official, Volker Türk, told the BBC that Israel bore significant blame for the crisis in Gaza, and there was a "plausible" case that it was using starvation as a weapon of war.
Israel has vehemently denied this.
Read our full article about when a famine is declared here
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