The politicians who have signed the letter include one of mr biden s key allies the former speaker of the house of representatives, nancy pelosi. Now this letter comes as a growing number of countries are calling for an independent investigation into the israeli drone strike that killed seven aid workers. Thats after the idf published its first account of mondays deadly attack. Britain has echoed calls by the Charity World central kitchen for an independent review into the strike on its convoy of vehicles. Of those seven aid workers killed three were british nationals. Three were british nationals. The British Foreign secretary, lord cameron, said london would carefully review the initial report by the israeli military. He welcomed the suspension of two senior israeli officers as a first step, but said israel must publish its findings in full. And within the past couple of hours australias foreign minister, penny wong, said the Australian Government expects full accountability over the
This has been a deadly failure of deacon flexion. Complexion is the by which humanitarian agencies engage with Defence Forces to ensure they are protected in conflict zones, and it was obviously a deadly failure. It cannot be rushed aside or covered over and i do not believe that any australian would expect us to do anything other than to continue to demand the transparency and accountability. The former United States House Speaker nancy pelosi a close ally of President Biden has signed a letter together with almost forty Congressional Democrats calling for a halt to Weapons Transfers to israel. The letter urges the white house to conduct its own probe into an israeli airstrike that killed seven aid workers on monday. It says the strike against the humanitarian convoy along with the ever worsening humanitarian crisis in gaza makes it unjustifiable to approve further weapons deliveries. So along with the growing number of countries aid organisations have stressed the need for an indepen
chief of staff, an officer with the rank of colonel in reserve, and the brigade fire support commander with the rank of major have been dismissed from their positions. here s idf spokesperson daniel hagari. the findings of the investigation should show that there were in fact a number of armed gunmen who boarded and left some of the vehicles that were identified during the course of the event. after some of the vehicles split from the others the forces that were tracking the vehicles let self thinking that these were hamas vehicles. that hamas gunmen had entered. this operational misidentification and misclassification was the result of internal failures. america s top diplomat antony blinken reacted to the idf s findings earlier as he boarded a plane back to washington from brussels. it s very important that israel is taking full responsibility for this incident. it s also important that it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible accountable. even more importa
coming up, liverpool have to avoid defeat against an austrian side to guarantee getting out of the group stages of the europa league. they are top of their group ahead of the match at anfield. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. the former health secretary matt hancock has told the covid inquiry that with the benefit of hindsight the uk should have locked down much sooner at the start of the pandemic. he said many, many lives could have been saved if the first lockdown had began three weeks earlier on the 2nd of march 2020. mr hancock also dismissed allegations from other colleagues that he had lied to them, and described what he called a toxic culture in government. 0ur political editor chris mason reports. one of the biggest names of the pandemic. the health secretary for england, matt hancock. the man in the middle on the television many nights, and the man who resigned for breaking the very rules he d helped draw up. today, his moment of accountabilit