Australia has summoned the Israeli ambassador over the killing of an Australian aid worker in an airstrike on Gaza, which Prime Minister Anthony Albanese described as “completely unacceptable.” | Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) has...

💬 “...requested a call-in from the Israeli ambassador," Albanese said on Tuesday. ”We want full accountability for this. This is a tragedy that should never have occurred,” he added.

Australian citizen Zomi Frankcom was among the seven aid workers who were killed in an Israeli airstrike in central Gaza on Monday. Citizens from Britain and Poland, and a dual citizen of the United States and Canada, were also among the victims who were working for the World Central Kitchen. (Image: LinkedIn)

■ Live blog: UN 'outraged' by 'indefensible' killing of aid workers in Gaza (TRT World)
■ Nearly 200 aid workers killed since October in occupied Palestine: UN (Anadolu)
■ Australian World Central Kitchen aid worker 'Zomi' Frankcom's body recovered after Gaza blast (abc.net.au)
■ ’Israel’ Kills Seven Aid Workers Delivering Food in Gaza (Alahed News)

Andy Worthington | On average, 250 Palestinians have been killed every day — or ten every hour — with nearly a hundred of those killed every day being children. | Last week, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor, the Geneva-based NGO, published its latest assessment of the death toll in Gaza, after 160 days of Israel’s relentless genocidal assault on the largely civilian population of the Gaza Strip, refugees from the ethnic cleansing that accompanied the blood-soaked establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, who, for the last 17 years, have been trapped in what Human Rights Watch described in 2022 as an “open-air prison”, because of Israel’s total blockade of all routes in and out, but which it would now be more accurate to describe as the world’s largest open-air graveyard, or the world’s largest concentration camp. ● Shamefully, no mainstream media outlet took an interest in Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor’s assessment, even though it reported, credibly, that the death toll from Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza has now surpassed 40,000 (40,042, according to the report), with 14,861 of those killed being children, and 9,273 being women, and with 36,330 of those killed (90%) assessed as having been civilians.

Iran’s President Ebrahim Raeisi says Israel has resorted to indiscriminate assassinations after back-to-back failures in the face of the resistance, warning that the regime’s latest crime against Iranian military advisers in Syria “will not go unanswered.” | Raeisi made the remarks in a statement released on Tuesday, a day after Israeli airstrikes destroyed Iran's consulate building in Damascus and killed seven military advisors of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC). He condemned Israel’s “inhumane invasion” as a “flagrant violation of international regulations” and extended condolences to the Iranian nation over the martyrdom of the IRGC advisors. The usurping Zionist regime, he added, has committed another “terrorist crime” and stained its “dirty hands” with the blood of several Iranian generals and officers.

■ UN Security Council to hold emergency meeting on Israeli strike on Iran’s Syria consulate (PressTV)
■ Iran’s FM: US Should be Answerable To ‘Israeli” Attack (Alahed News)
■ Israeli airstrike on Damascus destroys Iranian consulate building — TV (04/01/24)