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Beijing (AFP) – China says it is “shocked” and condemns a strike in Gaza that a US-based charity said killed seven of its staff as they unloaded desperately needed food aid.

Deir el-Balah (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – A US-based NGO says it is pausing its Gaza aid operations after several of its staff were killed in a “targeted Israeli strike” as they unloaded desperately needed food aid delivered by sea from Cyprus. “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. Since the October start of the war, World Central Kitchen has been involved in relief efforts, including supplying meals to hunger-stricken Gaza. The bloodiest-ever Gaza war erupted with Hamas’s unprecedented October 7 attack, which resulted in about 1,160 deaths in Israel, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures. Israel’s retaliatory campaign, aimed at destroying Hamas, has killed at least 32,845 people, mostly women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry in Gaza.

Paris (AFP) – From Paris, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken calls for an “impartial” investigation following the Israeli strike in Gaza that killed seven employees of the NGO World Central Kitchen and calls on Israel to do “more to protect innocent civilian lives” in the Palestinian territories. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has admitted that Israel’s armed forces “unintentionally” killed the seven aid workers in an air strike.

Following a question from a Belgian lawmaker about foreign interference in the elections, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo says that an investigation has found that Russia had paid MEPs to promote out Kremlin propaganda.

Jerusalem (AFP) – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits that its armed forces “unintentionally” killed seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza. “Unfortunately, in the last day there was a tragic case of our forces unintentionally hitting innocent people in the Gaza Strip,” he says as he left hospital in Jerusalem after a hernia operation.

Beijing (AFP) – China condemns deadly air strikes that destroyed the consular annex at the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing two high-level members of Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

Port-au-Prince (AFP) – Bodies pile up in the streets as the sound of gunshots echo in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince. Efforts to set up a presidential transitional council haven’t been successful due to disagreement among political parties and doubts over the legality of such a council.

Beijing (AFP) – ‘The Forbidden City and the Palace of Versailles’ exhibition opened in Beijing, featuring objects that illustrate the exchanges between France and China in the 17th and 18th centuries.

Hong Kong (AFP) – Hundreds gathered over the weekend to say goodbye to Mount Zero, an independent bookstore after weekly government inspections spurred by anonymous complaints forced it to put up the shutters.

Palestinians inspect damage at al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City following the withdrawal of Israeli troops. Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza’s largest hospital complex after an intensive and deadly two-week military operation, leaving behind a trail of destruction across the sprawling complex. TO COMPLETE VIDI34N73RV_EN