At least five people were killed including one unrwa staff member with many more wounded. These pictures have been verified by the bbc. They were shot at a nearby hospital, where casualties were taken. Israel has not yet commented on the incident. The us and others continue to urge israel not to launch a full scale assault on rafah, where more than a million palestinians have taken shelter in recent weeks. These are pictures of the warehouse taken in the immediate aftermath. This was the scene inside some of the images are too graphic to broadcast. Lets hearfrom unrwas director of Communications Juliette touma, who spoke to us from jordans capital, amman. This is a Distribution Centre for food, and also a warehouse where we store food supplies, but also other critical supplies. We know that it is the Israeli Forces who were responsible it happened this morning, our teams were on site and they reported back the casualties. It comes at a critical time, as hunger spreads across the gaza s
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International monetary funds Chief Economist Pierre Olivier gourinchas. The imf and the world bank are having their annual meeting in marrakech and later today, Finance Ministers from the 620 and Central Bank Governors will be meeting to discuss the health of the Global Economy. According to the imf, Global Growth remains dampened by Supply Chain Disruptions linked to the covid 19 pandemic and russias war in ukraine, persistently high inflation, and spiralling borrowing costs. Heres our economics editor faisal islam. The message from the imf for the 190 Finance Ministers and central governor business in marrakesh is that the World Economy they hope had turned a corner after three years of rolling your clinical crisis. Well, it is limping forward rather than sprinting forward now with geopolitical crisis. Slowdowns in very specific countries like china that they had not expected. There is an additional worry about this new higher for longer Interest Rate world that might affect the bank
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