Palestinians walk in the rubble of a building following an Israeliairstrike in the Rafah refugee camp Photo: AP
From The Telegraph:
Two United Nations contractors were killed by an Israeli tank shell today during an official suspension of hostilities designed to allow relief operations in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Humanitarian shipments into Gaza were halted immediately after two forklift drivers died when the convoy of aid was targeted.
It came as Israel was subjected to unusually harsh criticism by two leading international agencies for orchestrating a level of violence in Gaza that has forced the collapse of essential services.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said civilians were dying because access to conflict zones was impossible during offensive operations.
Both bodies accused Israel of violations of international law.
The ICRC produced a graphic account of starving children stranded for days by the corpses of their parents at one bombed building in the Zeitoun refugee camp.
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