The United Nations says it is halting all aid deliveries to Gaza. This announcement came shortly after the driver of a U.N. truck was shot and killed by tank fire as he was headed to an Israeli border crossing to pick up an aid shipment AFP reported today. This was one of a series of attacks. The U.N. said the delivery had been coordinated with Israel. The Israeli army has not commented on the incident.

Also today Red Cross issued a statement saying that relief workers found four starving children sitting next to their dead mothers and other corpses in a house in a part of Gaza City bombed by Israeli forces.  Reuters reported that the organisation accused Israel of delaying ambulance access to the hit area and demanded it grant safe access for Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances to return to evacuate more wounded.

  “This is a shocking incident,” said Pierre Wettach, ICRC chief for Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories.
“The Israeli military must have been aware of the situation but did not assist the wounded. Neither did they make it possible for us or the Palestinian Red Crescent to assist the wounded,” he said.
In unusually strong terms, the neutral agency said it believed Israel had breached international humanitarian law in the incident.
In a written response, the Israeli army said it works in coordination with international aid bodies assist civilians and that it “in no way intentionally targets civilians”.

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