The slaughter and famine in Gaza is an atrocity foretold. We demand an end to it | Owen Jones

The thousands in Britain who march against this war see a people - and aid workers - under murderous attack. Sunak can act, and he must

There are no excuses for ignoring where Israel's onslaught against Gaza would lead. After slaughtering seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, three Britons among them, Israeli authorities will subject us to a well-trodden strategy: deflect, delay, deceive, muddy the waters, hope attention moves elsewhere. We have seen this all before. As the Tory MP and chair of the foreign affairs select committee, Alicia Kearns, notes, nearly 11 weeks on, there has still been no explanation for why Israel bombed a Medical Aid for Palestinians compound in an official safe zone in mid-January.

These latest aid workers were travelling in a deconflicted" zone, had coordinated their movements with Israeli forces on a pre-agreed route, and were in vehicles marked with large World Central Kitchen logos. They were struck three times, over the space of nearly a mile and a half; survivors even scrambled into the remaining cars before being hit again.

Owen Jones is a Guardian columnist

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