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Australia's PM 'angered' by killing of WCK worker, calls Netanyahu

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  • 4 Apr 2024 13:47
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Anthony Albanese tells Netanyahu that the killing of aid workers is "unacceptable" and demands "full accountability".

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  • Australia's PM 'angered' by killing of WCK worker, calls Netanyahu
    Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese addresses the Leaders' Plenary during the ASEAN-Australia Special Summit in Melbourne, Australia, March 6, 2024. (AP)

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese demanded "full accountability" for the killing of Lalzawmi "Zomi" Frankcom, during a telephone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Wednesday. 

Frankcom is one of the seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) workers killed in a series of Israeli drone strikes on aid workers in the Gaza Strip.

Albanese said that the attack on WCK would only add to international concerns over "the extraordinary loss of life" in the Gaza Strip. He said that he "conveyed to Prime Minister Netanyahu in very clear terms that Australians were outraged by this death, by this tragedy, of this fine Australian."

"I expressed Australia’s anger and concern at the death of Zomi Frankcom," Albanese said. 

Read more: WHO chief condemns killing of foreign aid workers in Gaza

Netanyahu refuses to take responsibility for attack on WCK 

Meanwhile, Netanyahu issued a public comment, stating that such things happened in times of war. However, during the phone call, Netanyahu "did accept responsibility" for the events, according to Albanese. 

Nonetheless, Albanese made the following remark, "We need to have accountability for how it has occurred, and what is not good enough is the statements that have been made, including that this is just a product of war."

"This is against humanitarian law – international humanitarian law makes it very clear that aid workers should be able to provide that aid and that assistance free of the threat of losing their life," Albanese said, after "Israel" killed thousands of persons protected under international law, including civilians, women, children, aid workers, United Nations workers, wounded people, journalists, prisoners of war, and detainees.

Read more: UK condemns WCK aid workers' deaths; Canada calls for probe

'Israel' surgically murders aid workers

On April 2, Israeli drone strikes targeted a WKC truck and two other vehicles in the northern Gaza Strip, although the aid convoy had coordinated their movements with the Israeli military command. The attack killed seven aid workers in the Gaza Strip, adding to the large toll of humanitarians killed in the besieged territory by Israeli strikes

One vehicle explicitly bearing the WKC logo on its top - just like the remainder of the vehicles - was struck by a missile, and several aid personnel were seen leaving it wounded and seeking another vehicle. The second vehicle was then struck by a missile, the few survivors that remained and sought to seek shelter in the third car were also hit as soon as they got into the third vehicle, and all seven personnel were killed.

The distance between the location in which the first aid vehicle was struck and the second was 1.56km, and the distance between the location where the second and third vehicles were struck was 0.89km, rendering the distance between the first location and the last 2.3km, which means the Israeli occupation forces hunted the aid workers down and methodically killed them.

Read more: 'Israel' claims WCK workers killed in error after bombing them 3 times

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