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The passports of World Central Kitchen workers who were killed in a strike in central Gaza are seen on Monday. (Ali Jadallah/Anadolu/Getty Images)

Middle East conflict live updates 7 World Central Kitchen workers killed in Israeli strike, group says

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Seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed in an airstrike in Gaza, the food aid nonprofit said Tuesday, blaming the Israel Defense Forces. It added that it is immediately pausing its operations in the region and that the team had coordinated with the IDF about its movements before the strike. Those killed included a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, a Palestinian worker and nationals from Australia, Poland and the United Kingdom, according to World Central Kitchen. Israel had earlier said it was aware of reports of the incident and would conduct a “thorough review.”

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An airstrike near Iran’s embassy in Damascus, Syria, killed a senior Iranian commander and several Iranian diplomats Monday, according to Iranian state media, which said it was an Israeli attack. The strike killed a senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to Iranian news reports.
The United Nations is planning a mission to Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital as soon as it can gain access, Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, said Monday. The Israel Defense Forces said it had pulled back from the hospital, after a roughly two-week-long siege that left the sprawling medical campus in ruins.
Israeli lawmakers voted in favor of a bill that, if enacted, would allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ban the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network from operating in Israel.
A fresh round of cease-fire talks is expected this week in Cairo, according to the Egyptian state-run television channel Al Qahera. An Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations, confirmed that working-level talks are to take place in the Egyptian capital this week.
At least 32,845 people have been killed and 75,392 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and says 256 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operation in Gaza.
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An airstrike near Iran’s embassy in Damascus, Syria, killed a senior Iranian commander and several Iranian diplomats Monday, according to Iranian state media, which said it was an Israeli attack. The strike killed a senior commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, according to Iranian news reports.
The United Nations is planning a mission to Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital as soon as it can gain access, Stéphane Dujarric, a spokesman for the U.N. secretary general, said Monday. The Israel Defense Forces said it had pulled back from the hospital, after a roughly two-week-long siege that left the sprawling medical campus in ruins.
Israeli lawmakers voted in favor of a bill that, if enacted, would allow Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to ban the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network from operating in Israel.
A fresh round of cease-fire talks is expected this week in Cairo, according to the Egyptian state-run television channel Al Qahera. An Israeli official, speaking on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the negotiations, confirmed that working-level talks are to take place in the Egyptian capital this week.
At least 32,845 people have been killed and 75,392 injured in Gaza since the war began, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, which does not distinguish between civilians and combatants. Israel estimates that about 1,200 people were killed in Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack and says 256 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operation in Gaza.
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Israel-Gaza war

Israel-Gaza war: An airstrike near Iran’s embassy in Damascus, the Syrian capital, killed a senior Iranian commander and several Iranian diplomats Monday, according to Iranian state media, which said it was an Israeli attack. Israeli commandos pulled out of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, leaving the enclave’s largest hospital gutted.

Middle East conflict: Tensions in the region continue to rise. As Israeli troops aim to take control of the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, officials in Cairo warn that the move would undermine the 1979 peace treaty. Meanwhile, there’s a diplomatic scramble to avert full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon.

U.S. involvement: U.S. airstrikes in Iraq and Syria killed dozens of Iranian-linked militants, according to Iraqi officials. The strikes were the first round of retaliatory action by the Biden administration for an attack in Jordan that killed three U.S. service members.