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Israel-Hamas war

President Joe Biden voiced strong criticism of Israel Tuesday following a strike that killed seven aid workers in Gaza, saying it has not done enough to protect such workers. Follow our liveblog for the latest in the Israel-Gaza war.

Issued on: 03/04/2024 - 03:52

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Palestinian children gather around the car of the humanitarian group World Central Kitchen destroyed by an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, April 2, 2024.

Summary:

World powers widely condemned an Israeli strike in the Gaza Strip that killed seven charity staff delivering desperately needed aid to the war-torn territory.
The United Nations says the Israel-Hamas war has left almost 200 aid workers dead, including more than 175 members of the UN's staff.
The families of Israeli hostages held in Gaza by Hamas on Tuesday blasted their country's leader as a "traitor" as anger at Prime Minister Binjamin Netanyahu's handling of the war grew in the fourth consecutive night of mass protests.
The Palestinians have officially revived their application to become a full member state in the United Nations, according to a letter from their UN envoy.
Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry and eyewitnesses say Israel's assault on the Al Shifa hospital left destruction on a massive scale. Health officials said dozens of bodies have been recovered in and around the complex.
At least 32,916 Palestinians have been killed and 75,494 wounded since Israel began its offensive on Gaza, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run enclave. Around 1,140 people were killed in the Hamas-led October 7 attacks and 250 people taken hostage, according to Israeli figures, with 132 still missing.

Yesterday's key developments:

Food aid organisation World Central Kitchen (WCK) said Tuesday an Israeli strike killed seven of its workers in the Gaza Strip as they delivered food aid that had arrived by sea earlier in the day.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Tuesday expressed his "deep sorrow and sincere apologies" for the air strike.
The Israeli military said that an independent, professional expert body would investigate the deaths of seven people working for the World Central Kitchen in Gaza.
Poland's deputy foreign minister Andrzej Szejna on Tuesday said that Israel should "compensate" the families of the seven aid workers, including a Polish citizen, killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza.
The World Bank says the Israel-Hamas war has caused damage of around $18.5 billion to Gaza's critical infrastructure, according to a new report published Tuesday.

About casualty figures from Gaza’s Hamas-run health ministry:

Gaza’s health ministry collects data from the enclave’s hospitals and the Palestinian Red Crescent.

The health ministry does not report how Palestinians were killed, whether from Israeli airstrikes and artillery barrages or errant Palestinian rocket fire. It describes all casualties as victims of “Israeli aggression”.

The ministry also does not distinguish between civilians and combatants.

Throughout four wars and numerous skirmishes between Israel and Hamas, UN agencies have cited the Hamas-run health ministry’s death tolls in regular reports. The International Committee of the Red Cross and Palestinian Red Crescent also use the numbers.

In the aftermath of war, the UN humanitarian office has published final death tolls based on its own research into medical records. The UN's counts have largely been consistent with the Gaza health ministry’s, with small discrepancies.

For more on the Gaza health ministry’s tolls, click here.

(FRANCE 24 with AP)

(FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP & Reuters)