Israeli airstrike on Gaza aid convoy kills four

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An ******** air strike on an aid convoy carrying food and fuel to a Gaza hospital has ******* four Palestinians, the ******* States based aid group Anera says.

******* has claimed the convoy included “armed assailants,” something Anera denies.

The four Palestinians were in the lead vehicle of a convoy bound for the Emirati Red Crescent Hospital in Rafah in southern Gaza, the aid group said in a statement on Friday.

Soon after it left the *******-controlled Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, four Palestinians from the community “took control of the leading vehicle, citing concern that the route was unsafe and at risk of being looted,” Anera said.

“******** authorities allege that the lead car was carrying numerous weapons. Every initial report from those at the scene indicate that no weapons were present,” the organisation said.

A plan agreed with ******** authorities called for unarmed security guards in the convoy. The four had not been vetted nor coordinated with ******** authorities, but the convoy did not perceive them as a threat, Anera said.

Anera said there was no warning or communication before the ******** airstrike. No Anera staff were injured. After the four were *******, the rest of the convoy delivered the aid, it said.

In a statement quoted by multiple media outlets, the ******* Defense Forces said: “A number of armed assailants seized control of the vehicle in the front of the convoy… and began to lead it.”

“After the takeover and further verification that a precise strike on the armed assailants’ vehicle could be carried out, a strike was conducted,” the IDF said.

The ******** military and the ******** embassy in Washington could not immediately be reached for further comment.

Aid and humanitarian organisations have been hit previously in *******’s Gaza war.

In April, three ******** strikes hit a convoy of aid vehicles, ******** seven World Central Kitchen staff including *********** Zomi Frankcom.

The ******* Nations World Food Programme said this week that one of its vehicles was hit by 10 bullets near an ******** military checkpoint.

The latest bloodshed in the decades-old ********-************ conflict was triggered on October 7 when ************ Islamist group ****** attacked *******, ******** 1200 and taking about 250 hostages, according to ******** tallies.

*******’s subsequent ******** on the ******-governed enclave has since ******* over 40,000 Palestinians, according to the local health ministry.

Nearly the entire Gaza population of 2.3 million has been displaced and the enclave has a hunger crisis.

******* faces genocide allegations at the World Court that it denies.

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