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道路危险，但他们采取了预防措施。4月1日，一组援助工作者离开了位于加沙中部迪尔阿尔巴拉的一个仓库。他们的三车车队明显地标有世界中央厨房（WCK）的平底锅标志，这是一个与以色列紧密合作的慈善机构。他们沿着沿海道路的路线已经得到以色列军队的清理。但预防措施并未起作用：一架悬停在头顶上的以色列无人机向汽车发射了三枚导弹，一辆接一辆，导致车内所有七人死亡。 6park.com
他们被认为是在为期六个月的加沙战争中死亡的第一批外国援助工作者（大约200名他们的巴勒斯坦同事已被杀害）。除了人类悲剧之外，他们的死亡将对以色列的外交地位产生更大的影响——以及对饥饿的加沙人民。 6park.com
大多数受害者来自支持以色列的西方国家。所有这些国家现在都非常愤怒。英国召见了以色列大使进行罕见的交涉，首相里希·苏纳克告诉本雅明·内塔尼亚胡他“感到震惊”。资助WCK在加沙工作的主要国家阿拉伯联合酋长国，指责“以色列占领军”“针对”援助工作者——这是来自以色列最亲密的阿拉伯盟友的不同寻常的强烈措辞。将WCK创始人、厨师何塞·安德烈斯称为朋友的乔·拜登表示，他对杀戮感到愤怒。“以色列没有做足够的努力来保护援助工作者，”他说。这些死亡几乎肯定会导致这些政府在对以色列的武器销售方面承受更大的国内压力。无论它们是否会导致转变，方式上与33000名巴勒斯坦人的死亡不同，这还不太清楚。 6park.com
歉意不足
以色列总统以撒克·赫尔佐格打电话给安德烈斯先生，表达了“深深的悲痛”。军队首脑承诺进行彻底调查（尽管以色列在这方面的记录不佳）。以色列的总理态度不那么歉意：在一段奇怪的录像声明中，面带微笑的内塔尼亚胡说他正在从疝气手术中恢复得很好，然后承认了加沙的“悲剧事件”。“这在战争中会发生，”他说。 6park.com
联合国表示，加沙220万人口中有一半面临“灾难性的粮食安全问题”，北加沙数十万人濒临饥荒。然而，以色列试图将联合国救济和工程署（UNRWA），加沙的主要援助分发机构，边缘化。 6park.com
相反，以色列试图通过非政府组织合作。它对WCK充满热情。上个月，它允许该组织开始通过海运向加沙运送援助物资，这是二十年来它首次放松对该地区的海上封锁。然而，无人机袭击之后，WCK表示它将暂停在加沙的操作，并将从塞浦路斯来的船只转回。其他非政府组织也效仿了这一做法。援助工作者愿意接受风险：这是工作的一部分。但在加沙，风险似乎太高了。该飞地的部分地区已陷入无政府状态，以色列指挥官几乎不考虑保护平民。 6park.com
将足够的食物带入加沙的努力是零散而致命的。西方和阿拉伯军队空投的托盘撞击并杀死了平民。饥饿的加沙人攻击了卡车，在食物分发处发生踩踏事件而被压死。美国正试图建造一个码头来接收更大批量的援助物资，但该项目距离完成还有几周时间，围绕谁将保护码头和分发物资存在很大的问题。 6park.com
几个月来，内塔尼亚胡拒绝命令以色列军队在加沙本身分发援助。但如果以色列不想让UNRWA参与，而其他组织感到不安全，它将别无选择。 6park.com
原文
The road was dangerous, but they took precautions. On April 1st a group of aid workers left a warehouse in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza. The vehicles in their three-car convoy were clearly marked with the frying-pan logo of World Central Kitchen (wck), a charity that has worked closely with Israel. Their route along the coastal road had been cleared with the Israeli army. But the precautions did not help: an Israeli drone loitering overhead fired three missiles at the cars, one after another, killing all seven people inside. 6park.com
They are thought to be the first foreign aid-workers to die in the six-month Gaza war (around 200 of their Palestinian colleagues have been killed). Beyond the human tragedy, their deaths will have bigger consequences for Israel’s diplomatic standing—and for hungry Gazans. 6park.com
Most of the victims come from Western countries that support Israel. All are now furious. Britain summoned the Israeli ambassador for a rare démarche, and Rishi Sunak, the prime minister, told Binyamin Netanyahu he was “appalled”. The United Arab Emirates, the main funder of wck’s work in Gaza, accused “Israeli occupation forces” of “targeting” the aid workers—unusually strong language from Israel’s closest Arab ally. Joe Biden, who calls José Andrés, the chef who founded wck, a friend, said he was outraged by the killings. “Israel has not done enough to protect aid workers,” he said. The deaths will almost certainly lead to greater domestic pressure on such governments when it comes to arms sales to Israel. Whether they lead to a shift, in a way that 33,000 Palestinian deaths have not, is less clear. 6park.com
Sorry not sorry
Isaac Herzog, the Israeli president, called Mr Andrés and expressed “deep sorrow”. The army chief pledged a thorough investigation (though Israel has a poor track record of those). Israel’s prime minister was less contrite: in a bizarre videotaped statement, a smiling Mr Netanyahu said that he was recovering well from hernia surgery and then acknowledged the “tragic event” in Gaza. “This happens in war,” he said. 6park.com
The un says that half of Gaza’s 2.2m people face “catastrophic food insecurity” and that hundreds of thousands of people in northern Gaza are on the brink of famine. Yet Israel has tried to sideline the un Relief and Works Agency (unrwa), the main aid distributor in Gaza. 6park.com
Instead, Israel has sought to work through ngos. It was enthusiastic about wck. Last month it allowed the group to start shipping aid to Gaza by sea, the first time in two decades it has loosened its maritime embargo of the territory. After the drone strike, though, wck said it was pausing its operations in Gaza and turned back ships en route from Cyprus. Other ngos followed suit. Aid workers are willing to accept risk: that is part of the job. But the risks seem too high in Gaza. Parts of the enclave have fallen into anarchy and Israeli commanders show scant regard for protecting civilians. 6park.com
The effort to bring enough food into Gaza has been haphazard and deadly. Pallets air-dropped by Western and Arab forces have struck and killed civilians. Hungry Gazans have attacked lorries and been crushed in stampedes at food deliveries. America is trying to build a pier to receive bigger shipments of aid, but the project is still weeks away from completion and there are big questions around who will secure the pier and deliver the supplies. 6park.com
For months Mr Netanyahu has refused to order the Israeli army to distribute aid in Gaza itself. But if Israel does not want unrwa involved, and if other groups do not feel safe, it will have no choice. 6park.com
https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2024/04/03/what-israels-killing-of-aid-workers-means-for-gaza