International outrage after airstrike kills World Central Kitchen workers in Gaza

Seven foreign aid workers and their Palestinian driver were killed in an Israeli air strike late on Monday, hours after their charity World Central Kitchen brought in a shipload of food via a maritime route. The US-based charity said those killed were "from Australia, Poland, United Kingdom, a dual citizen of the US and Canada and Palestine”. The Israeli army promised Tuesday to hold an investigation into the air strike, saying "we will share our findings transparently". Follow our liveblog for the latest in the Israel-Gaza war.

Summary:

• Food aid organization 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. "World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza," the US-based charity said in a statement, adding that those killed were "from Australia, Poland, United Kingdom, a dual citizen of the US and Canada and Palestine".
• Israeli military spokesperson Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said that an independent, professional expert body would investigate the aid workers' deaths, and expressed condolences to WCK's founder, Chef Jose Anders, as well as "to our allied nations who have been doing and continue to do so much to assist those in need".
• 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, and a spokesperson for the WHO said the destruction of the enclave's largest hospital amounted to "ripping the heart out of" Gaza's health system.
• 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.