Evacuation warnings issued by Israel to people in Gaza ahead of the attacks contained numerous and major errors, a BBC analysis has revealed.
The United Nations Human Rights Office said on April 5 that attacks on people involved in humanitarian aid could amount to war crimes.
The statement followed Israel's deadly attack on aid workers in the Gaza Strip on April 1.
"An attack on people or facilities involved in humanitarian aid can constitute a war crime. As the High Commissioner has repeatedly stated, the practice of impunity must end," said UN Office spokesman Jeremy Lawrence.
Seven humanitarian workers of the World Central Kitchen were killed in an attack by Israeli forces while helping to deliver food to Gaza.
Aid workers from Poland, Australia, Ireland and Great Britain were killed shortly after overseeing the unloading of 100 tons of food brought by sea into the Palestinian enclave.
Lawrence said that their killing is an indication of the terrible conditions in which humanitarian workers in Gaza work.
"International law requires all parties to respect and protect humanitarian aid personnel and to ensure their safety, protection and freedom of movement," Lawrence said.
He said the suspension of the delivery and distribution of aid from non-governmental organizations, including the World Central Kitchen after the killing, increased the risk to the lives and health of the people of the Gaza Strip.
World Central Kitchen founder and famous Spanish chef Jose Andres previously accused Israel of targeting his workers "systematically, car by car."
Israeli authorities said shortly after the attack that it was a "serious mistake" and promised to investigate the incident.
Medical charity Doctors Without Borders rejected Israel's view that the airstrike was an "unfortunate incident", saying many aid workers had been attacked before.
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US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said today that the measures announced by the Israeli government to bring more humanitarian aid to Gaza are welcome, but that they may not be enough.
Blinken said the opening of more border crossings, if fully implemented, has the potential to increase much-needed aid to the Palestinians.
However, as he stated, the US also wants to see tangible steps towards better protection of civilians and aid workers.
He called for an "independent, thorough and fully transparent investigation" into the murder of seven World Central Kitchen aid workers.
"We welcome the steps announced by Israel. It's a positive step, but the real test is the results and that's what we want to see in the coming days and weeks," Blinken told reporters in Louvain, a town near Brussels where he met with American and European trade officials.
The US, he says, wants to see better coordination so that aid can be safely delivered and distributed in Gaza.
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The Hamas Health Ministry announced today that 33.091 people have been killed in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the war.
In the past 24 hours, 54 people were killed, Hamas announced.
Since October 7 last year, when the war began, a total of 75.750 Palestinians have been injured, the statement added.
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The United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council today adopted a resolution holding Israel accountable for possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the Gaza Strip, although Israel rejected it as a "distorted text", Reuters reports.
28 countries voted for the resolution, 13 abstained, and six were against the resolution, including the United States of America (USA) and Germany.
The adoption prompted several representatives in the Council to cheer and applaud.
The resolution emphasized "the need to ensure accountability for all violations of international humanitarian law and international law in order to end impunity."
It also expressed "serious concern over reports of serious violations of human rights and grave violations of international humanitarian law, including possible war crimes and crimes against humanity in the occupied Palestinian territory."
Meirav Eilon Shahar, Israel's permanent representative to the UN in Geneva, accused the Council of "abandoning the Israeli people a long time ago and defending Hamas for a long time."
"According to the resolution before you today, Israel has no right to protect its people, while Hamas has every right to kill and torture innocent Israelis," she said ahead of the vote.
"A 'yes' vote is a vote for Hamas," she said.
The US has pledged to vote against the resolution because it does not contain a specific condemnation of Hamas for the October 7 attacks, nor "any reference to the terrorist nature of those actions."
However, their ally Israel is said to have not done enough to mitigate the damage to civilians.
"The US has repeatedly called on Israel to end military operations against Hamas with humanitarian operations, to avoid civilian casualties and to ensure that humanitarian actors can carry out their essential mission safely," said Michelle Taylor, US Permanent Representative to the Council.
"That didn't happen and in just six months more humanitarians have been killed in this conflict than in any war in the modern era," she added.
The UN Human Rights Council, which meets several times a year, is the only intergovernmental body designed to protect human rights around the world. He can strengthen monitoring of the human rights situation in countries and authorize investigations.
The United States of America (USA) welcomes Israel's latest efforts to provide more humanitarian aid in Gaza, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said today, but added that success will be measured by results in improving the situation on the ground, Reuters reports.
"Really the proof is the results, and we'll see how they play out in the coming days, in the coming weeks," Blinken said, speaking alongside European Union (EU) leaders in Belgium.
US President Joseph Biden threatened on Thursday to condition support for Israel's offensive in Gaza on concrete steps to protect aid workers and civilians, seeking for the first time to use US aid to influence the behavior of the Israeli military.
Asked about Israel's actions after Biden's change of position, Blinken told reporters that Washington would be "watching closely" specific indicators such as the number of trucks coming into the Gaza Strip and the risk of famine.
He also said Israel must ensure the population is protected from attack by "maximizing all efforts to protect civilians," adding: "We simply cannot have so many people caught in the crossfire, killed and injured."
Palestinian Children's Day comes this year when Palestinian children are experiencing unprecedented aggression from the Israeli occupation forces, the Embassy of Palestine in Montenegro announced.
Israel will allow the "temporary" delivery of aid to the Gaza Strip through the Erez crossing, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office announced today.
"The (War) Cabinet has authorized the Prime Minister, the Minister of Defense (Joav Galant) and the Minister (Beni) Ganc to take immediate steps to increase humanitarian aid to the civilian population in the Gaza Strip," the statement said.
As it is added, the aid will contribute to the prevention of the humanitarian crisis, but "is also necessary to ensure the continuation of the fighting and achieve the goals of the war".
Israel will approve the "temporary" delivery of humanitarian aid through the Israeli port of Ashdod, 40 kilometers north of Gaza, and the Erez crossing, in the south of the country.
The authorities will also allow more delivery of Jordanian aid through Kerem Shalom, a border crossing in southern Israel.
International pressure is mounting on the Israeli government over the humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
US President Joseph Biden spoke for the first time yesterday about the possibility of making US aid to Israel conditional.
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