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A man on Tuesday inspects one of the World Central Kitchen vehicles hit in an Israeli strike in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza. (Ahmed Zakot/Reuters)

Middle East conflict live updates Biden says Israel has ‘not done enough’ to protect civilians after strike on aid workers

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President Biden said he was “outraged and heartbroken” by the Israel Defense Forces strike that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza, urging Israel to better protect aid workers and civilians there. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel “deeply regrets” the incident, while the IDF said the strike was a “grave mistake” and the result of a “misidentification.”

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World Central Kitchen suspended its activities in the region after the attack. Some 240 tons of undelivered aid on its ships off Gaza’s coast will be returned to Cyprus, a Cypriot Foreign Ministry spokesman told the Associated Press.
An Israeli delegation returned from cease-fire talks in Cairo after working with mediators on an updated proposal for Hamas, according to the prime minister’s office. Hamas officials have not yet responded to the latest proposal.
Demonstrators rallied against the Israeli government for a third night in Jerusalem, calling for a deal to release the hostages. Ronen Bar, chief of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, said Wednesday that the demonstrations have gone “beyond any reasonable protest actions,” without giving further details.
At least 32,975 people have been killed and 75,577 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, including more than 300 soldiers, and says 256 soldiers have been killed since the start of its military operation in Gaza.
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World Central Kitchen suspended its activities in the region after the attack. Some 240 tons of undelivered aid on its ships off Gaza’s coast will be returned to Cyprus, a Cypriot Foreign Ministry spokesman told the Associated Press.
An Israeli delegation returned from cease-fire talks in Cairo after working with mediators on an updated proposal for Hamas, according to the prime minister’s office. Hamas officials have not yet responded to the latest proposal.
Demonstrators rallied against the Israeli government for a third night in Jerusalem, calling for a deal to release the hostages. Ronen Bar, chief of Israel’s Shin Bet security service, said Wednesday that the demonstrations have gone “beyond any reasonable protest actions,” without giving further details.
At least 32,975 people have been killed and 75,577 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, including more than 300 soldiers, 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: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel’s military struck civilians in the Gaza Strip in a “tragic incident” after the aid organization World Central Kitchen said seven of its workers were killed while distributing food. Meanwhile, an airstrike near Iran’s embassy in Syria’s capital killed a senior Iranian commander and several Iranian diplomats, according to Tehran’s state media, which said it was an Israeli attack.