They’d advised the Israelis they had been there. Travelling alongside a coastal highway in Gaza, six assist staff – from the UK, Poland, Australia and Canada – and their Palestinian driver. They’d simply unloaded greater than 100 tonnes of humanitarian meals assist delivered to Gaza for the tens of millions of individuals vulnerable to famine when immediately a drone appeared above them and struck not as soon as however 3 times. There have been no survivors.
As Peter Beaumont tells Michael Safi, the strikes on the staff from the help organisation World Central Kitchen have completed what 33,000 Palestinians deaths apparently couldn’t and outraged leaders within the UK and around the globe. Israel says these strikes had been an error, a tragedy, to be independently investigated.
Because the Guardian’s diplomatic editor, Patrick Wintour, explains, the temper on the highest stage within the UK has noticeably shifted. Now there may be an open debate amongst senior figures within the authorized career and on the prime of politics about whether or not Britain ought to proceed to arm Israel. Polling of the general public suggests greater than half of individuals imagine it ought to cease.
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