CAIRO – Arab League Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit condemned in the strongest terms Israel’s killing of seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen (WCK) in an airstrike on Deir al Balah in the central Gaza Strip.
In a press release on Wednesday, AL Spokesman Gamal Roushdi quoted Abul Gheit as saying that this massacre provides new evidence of the complete randomness of the Israeli occupation operations in the Gaza Strip, and that the seven relief workers were killed, like hundreds of other humanitarian aid workers, and tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, “in cold blood”.
Nearly 200 relief workers have been killed since the beginning of the brutal war on the Gaza Strip, including 176 from the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), he said.
These numbers are unprecedented in any conflict in the 21st century, and represent a dangerous threat that takes us back to the pre-adoption of international norms and laws that distinguished between civilians and combatants in the armed conflict, he added.
Abul Gheit called for launching an impartial international investigation into this incident, questioning the credibility of the Israeli investigations and recalling previous incidents during which the crimes of the occupation army were covered up, such as the crime of targeting Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in the occupied West Bank.
