By Heather Chen, CNN Here’s how to help humanitarian efforts in Gaza and Israel. From CNN staff The US received Israel’s report on the deadly strike on a World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy in Gaza and is “reviewing it very carefully,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday. There are “no plans” for the US to conduct an independent or separate investigation, according to National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby. The Israel Defense Forces fired two of its officers and reprimanded others for their involvement in the strikes, but the WCK charity said Israel could not be trusted to investigate its own errors in Gaza. Here are other headlines you should know: From CNN’s Ruba Alhenawi United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has expressed concerns over reports of Israel’s use of artificial intelligence (ai) in its war against Hamas in Gaza. His words come amid intensifying international scrutiny of Israel’s military campaign, after targeted airstrikes killed several foreign aid workers delivering food in the Palestinian enclave. A recent investigation by contact news publication +972 Magazine also revealed that Israel’s military has been using artificial intelligence to help identify bombing targets in Gaza, and cited Israeli intelligence officials who had been involved in the alleged program. When asked about the allegations, a spokesperson for the Israeli military did not dispute the existence of the tool but denied ai was being used to identify suspected terrorists. From Eyad Kourdi The Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations has accused Israel of deliberately targeting the World Central Kitchen staff killed by a strike in Gaza this week. “The killing of the aid workers from the World Central Kitchen is not an isolated incident,” the ambassador, Riyad Mansour, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday. “Israel knew very well who it was targeting, hitting three cars in three locations, despite the fact that they were identifiable and had gotten coordinated with Israel,” Mansour added. The ambassador said “it took the deaths of foreigners” for the international community to acknowledge the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza over the past 180 days. The strike killed one Palestinian, three Britons, a US-Canadian dual citizen, an Australian and a Pole, according to the organization. Israeli report: On Friday, the Israel Defense Forces published a report into the killings, which it said violated its own protocols and should not have happened. The report found that IDF forces “mistakenly assumed” there were Hamas gunmen traveling in the aid convoy and opened fire on the vehicles. The WCK has called for further independent investigations, saying the IDF cannot be trusted to “investigate its own failure in Gaza.” Read more about the IDF report. From CNN’s Ami Kaufman and Caitlin Danaher The World Health Organization completed a “highly complex mission” delivering medical aid to hospitals in northern Gaza on Thursday. Despite “ongoing hostilities” in Gaza City, the supplies were delivered to around 1,000 patients at both Al Sahaba and Al Ahli hospitals, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a post on X Friday. Al Sahaba hospital also received one pallet of canned food, and a patient with complex lower-limb injuries was successfully moved from Al Ahli to a field hospital in Rafah, Tedros said. Tedros concluded by repeating calls for a “sustained and safe passage for humanitarian aid” and appealed for an immediate ceasefire. Some context: The successful delivery of much-needed medical supplies follows several months of difficulty getting aid where it is needed most in Gaza. The UN agency reported that heavy bombardment, movement restrictions and interrupted communications were making it nearly impossible to deliver medical supplies regularly and safely. Medical aid relief teams were forced to call off repeated delivery missions in January after failing to receive security guarantees, the WHO said at the time. Israeli authorities denied 30% of humanitarian aid missions to northern Gaza in March, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported.
Devastation in Gaza as Israel wages war on Hamas
