A U.S.-Canadian dual citizen was among the seven killed, aid group World Central Kitchen said. The Israeli military said it would conduct a “thorough review.”
PARIS — Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Tuesday defended the billions of dollars in arms shipments the United States has provided to Israel, saying in the wake of the country’s deadly airstrike on a World Central Kitchen aid convoy that each transfer was approved by Congress in accordance with the law. “That’s the system that’s in place, has been in place for a long time, and one that continues,” he told reporters at a news conference alongside France’s foreign minister.
it said in a statement. The group had stepped up food deliveries to Gaza as the United Nations warned that the Palestinian enclave is on the brink of famine. “These people are heroes; they run into the fire, not away from it,” Blinken said of the aid workers. “We shouldn’t have a situation where people who are simply trying to help their fellow human beings are themselves at grave risk.
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