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Middle East crisis live: bodies of foreign aid workers killed in Gaza strike to be repatriated

Remains of six international staff of World Central Kitchen expected to be transported via Egypt on Wednesday

The UK should stop arming Israel, a former national security adviser has said, after seven international aid workers were killed in Gaza in an Israeli airstrike.

Lord Ricketts, who was also the former permanent secretary at the Foreign Office, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “Sometimes in conflict, you get a moment where there’s such global outrage that it crystalises a sense that things can’t go on like this.”

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