DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip — Gaza medical officials say an apparent Israeli airstrike killed four international aid workers with the World Central Kitchen charity and their Palestinian driver after they helped deliver food and other supplies to northern Gaza that had arrived hours earlier by ship.
Footage showed the bodies of the five dead at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in the central Gaza town of Deir al-Balah. Several of them wore protective gear with the charity’s logo. Staff showed the passports of three of the dead: British, Australian and Polish. The nationality of the fourth aid worker was not immediately known.
The Israeli military said it was conducting a review “to understand the circumstances of this tragic incident.”
World Central Kitchen, the charity founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, said it was aware of the reports and would “share more information when we have gathered all the facts.”
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“This is a tragedy. Humanitarian aid workers and civilians should NEVER be a target. EVER,” WCK spokeswoman Linda Roth said in a statement.
Mahmoud Thabet, a Palestinian Red Crescent paramedic who was on the team that brought the bodies to the hospital, told The Associated Press the workers were in a three-car convoy that was crossing out of northern Gaza when an Israeli missile hit. Thabet said he was told by WCK staff the team had been in the north coordinating distribution of the newly arrived aid and were heading back to Rafah in the south.
The source of fire could not be independently confirmed.
Three aid ships from Cyprus arrived earlier Monday carrying some 400 tons of food and supplies organized by the charity and the United Arab Emirates — the group's second shipment after a pilot run last month. The Israeli military was involved in coordinating both deliveries.
The U.S. has touted the sea route as a new way to deliver desperately needed aid to northern Gaza, where several hundred Palestinians face imminent famine, largely cut off from the rest of the territory by Israeli forces. Israel has barred UNRWA, the main U.N. agency in Gaza, from making deliveries to the north, and other aid groups say sending truck convoys north has been too dangerous because of the military's failure to ensure safe passage.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military withdrew from Gaza’s largest hospital early Monday after a two-week raid that engulfed the facility and surrounding districts in fighting. Footage showed widespread devastation, with the facility's main buildings reduced to burned-out husks.
Palestinians walk through the destruction left by the Israeli air and ground offensive on the Gaza Strip near Shifa Hospital on Monday in Gaza City.
Mohammed Hajjar, Associated Press
The military described the raid on Shifa Hospital as a major battlefield victory in the nearly six-month war, and officials said Israeli troops killed 200 militants in the operation, though the claim that they were all militants could not be confirmed.
Also on Monday, top American and Israeli officials held virtual talks as the U.S. pushed alternatives to the ground assault against Hamas that Israel is considering in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, a move the U.S. opposes on humanitarian grounds.
The officials met by secure video conference, a week after planned in-person talks were nixed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu when the U.S. didn't veto a U.N. resolution that called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. A U.S. official, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the matter, said the U.S. anticipates that “expert teams” will follow up on the talks in person.
The hospital raid came at a time of mounting frustration in Israel, with tens of thousands protesting Sunday against Netanyahu and demanding that he do more to bring home dozens of hostages held in Gaza. It was the largest anti-government demonstration since the start of the war.
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Elsewhere, Syrian officials and state media said an Israeli airstrike destroyed the Iran's consulate in Syria, killing two Iranian generals and five officers. A member of Hezbollah, Hussein Youssef, also was killed in the attack, an official with the militant group told AP.
The strike appears to signify an escalation of Israel’s targeting of Iranian military officials and their allies in Syria. The targeting intensified since Hamas militants — who are supported by Iran — attacked Israel on Oct. 7.
While Iran’s consular building was leveled in the attack, according to Syria’s state news agency, SANA, its main embassy building remained intact.
Israel, which rarely acknowledges such strikes, said it had no comment. Iran’s ambassador, Hossein Akbari, vowed revenge for the attack.
Police officers stand in front of people sitting on the street during a protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government and call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group near the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Monday in Jerusalem.
Leo Correa, Associated Press
In other developments, Netanyahu said he would shut down satellite broadcaster Al Jazeera immediately. He vowed to close the “terror channel” after parliament passed a law Monday clearing the way for the country to halt the Qatari-owned channel from broadcasting from Israel.
Netanyahu accused Al Jazeera of harming Israeli security, participating in the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks and inciting violence against Israel.
Israel said it launched the latest raid on Shifa because senior Hamas operatives regrouped there and were planning attacks. Israeli authorities identified six officials from Hamas’ military wing they said were killed inside the hospital during the raid. Israel also said it seized weapons and valuable intelligence.
The raid gutted a facility that was the heart of Gaza’s health care system but which doctors and staff struggled to get even partially operating after a prior Israeli assault in November.
Protesters who are against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government call for the release of hostages held in the Gaza Strip by the Hamas militant group near the Knesset, Israel's parliament, Monday in Jerusalem.
Leo Correa, Associated Press
The raid triggered days of heavy fighting for blocks around Shifa, with witnesses reporting airstrikes, the shelling of homes and troops going house to house to force residents to leave.
After the troops withdrew, hundreds of Palestinians returned to search for lost loved ones or examine the damage.
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