Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister Melanie Joly has called for a full investigation into the killing of aid workers in Gaza, amongst whom a Canadian citizen, by an Israeli airstrike, Reuters reports.

Speaking on the sidelines of a Nato foreign ministers meeting in Brussels, she said Israel needed to respect international law, adding Canada would make sure it does.

 Relatives and friends mourn the death of Saif Abu Taha, a staff member of World Central Kitchen who was killed as Israeli strikes hit a convoy of the NGO a day earlier, during his funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 2. — AFP
Relatives and friends mourn the death of Saif Abu Taha, a staff member of World Central Kitchen who was killed as Israeli strikes hit a convoy of the NGO a day earlier, during his funeral in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on April 2. — AFP

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