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Good morning and welcome to our live news blog. I’m Martin Farrer and I’ll be taking you through a few of the top overnight and breaking news stories until my colleague takes over.
The pressure on Australia to take a stronger stand against Israel after the Gaza aid worker killings intensified overnight when the charity involved urged the governments of the staff who died to join its call for an independent inquiry. Anthony Albanese called out his Israeli counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, yesterday, saying the latter’s comments that “this happens in war” were “not good enough” to try to justify the deaths of Australian Zomi Frankcom and six other aid workers who were delivering food in Gaza on Monday. But the international food charity World Central Kitchen has called for an independent investigation into the Israeli strikes and called on the governments of Australia, Canada, the UK, Poland and the US to back the demand. There’s also pressure on Joe Biden to act and he discussed the incident with Netanyahu overnight.
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