[Jones:] Welcome back. This is THE WORLD RIGHT NOW. I'm Hannah Vaughan Jones. Israel says it has new evidence that Hamas is syphoning off humanitarian aids meant for Palestinian civilians. For the second time in just a week, Israel has charged an international aid worker with aiding Hamas in Gaza. The latest, Waheed Bossh, an engineer with the United Nations Development Program. Israel says he has confessed to being recruited by Hamas. Let's bring in Oren Lieberman for more details following the developments for us from Jerusalem. Oren, good to see you. Just update us first on the developments today in this story and what the U.N. has said in response.
[Oren Liebermann, Cnn Correspondent:] These charges come against Waheed Bossh, a 38-year-old Gazan who worked as an engineer for the UNDP, the United Nations Development Program that does humanitarian work inside Gaza, for example, rubble removal and helping in the rebuilding process following the 2014 Gaza war. Israel arrested Bossh on July 3rd and charged him today with aiding directing that humanitarian aid towards Hamas. For example, Israel says he helped Hamas build a jetty for military purposes in Northern Gaza. Israel also accuses Bossh of directing aid towards Hamas in terms of rebuilding, saying that neighbors with large Hamas population would get rebuilt before those with Palestinian populations. Because of those accusations, Bossh was charged today Hannah.
[Jones:] It is the second time that something similar to this has happened just in one week. Is there any indication yet or how Hamas operatives are managing to infiltrate international aid organizations?
[Liebermann:] Well, in terms of these two investigations, as you mentioned, Bossh and the second investigation, which was against Mohammad El Halabi, there doesn't seem to be an indication between these two investigations that they were coordinated. Let's talk about El Halabi for just a moment here. He also a 38-year- old Gazan, was the Gaza director of that branch of World Vision, a U.S.- based humanitarian aid organization. Israel accused him and charged him with siphoning millions of dollars away from that aid organization and giving it to Hamas' military wing. Israel says he was a member of Hamas' military wing. He, El Halabi Israel says worked his way into World Vision because he did some work for the United Nations and because his father worked for the United Nations, giving him an advantage in the hiring process. That's how Israel says he worked his way into World Vision, which does millions of dollars' worth of aid in Gaza. The response from both the U.N. and World Vision has been similar. Both say they take the accusations very seriously and they're looking with an internal review at how their own mechanisms were bypassed to make sure humanitarian aid goes where it's supposed to go. World Vision had a second part to the statement saying they're at least partly skeptical of the information Israel has put out. Let me read this statement to explain why. This is from Kevin Jenkins, the CEO of World Vision. He says, "If any of these allegations are proven to be true, we'll take swift and decisive action. Unfortunately, we still have not seen any of the evidence. World Vision's cumulative operating budget in Gaza for the past ten years was approximately $22.5 million, which makes the alleged amount of $50 million being diverted hard to reconcile." That statement is why World Vision is skeptical of the information Israel has put out. Both organizations which is the U.N. and World Vision say they will cooperate fully with authorities during this investigation and they urge Israel to conduct a fair trial in both cases Hannah.
[Jones:] Oren, we appreciate it. Oren Liebermann live for us in Jerusalem, thank you very much indeed. The number of people killed in Monday's attack in Quetta in Pakistan has now risen to 72. Lawyers across the country went on strike to protest against the assault. Many of those killed were themselves attorneys who were mourning after the killing of one of their colleagues. CNN's Michael Holmes has more.
[Michael Holmes, Cnn Correspondent:] This morning across Pakistan, the Courts of Justice were silent as the country's legal community mourns its dead. Quetta's lawyers have been mourning one of their own, the 41-year-old Bilal Anwar Kasi, the president of the Balochistan Bar Association. Shot dead early Monday, his body was being taken out of the mortuary of the city's civil hospital when a suicide bomber detonated eight kilograms of explosive. Scenes of chaos, distraction, and screams of despair followed. The majority of those dead were lawyers including several senior advocates. A generation of legal mentors, silenced.
[Ghulam Muhammad, Pakistani Lawyer:] No crime against humanity compares to this. It's very tragic. Our seniors and intellectuals have been killed and may God reward them in heaven.
[Holmes:] Pakistan's lawyers are protesting nationwide taking to the streets, holding vigils, making their voices heard, sometimes by silence. In solidarity with the victims, this morning the halls of Pakistan's Supreme Court was empty. The chief justice of the country absent, participating in the strike. Shops were closed. Their windows clamp shot as Quetta's residents grieved and tended to survivors. That attack also targeted journalists and doctors, individuals mainly from Pakistan's tiny middle class. Their lives now cut brutally short. A 25-year-old cameraman, Mahmoud Hassan, among them, a father of four who had worked his way up from a security guard at a local channel, taking night classes, and sharing dreams of one day appearing on air as a reporter. As Quetta bleeds, its citizens are unafraid and dauntless.
[Ali Farman, Quetta Shopkeeper:] We strongly condemn the attack. There are those who are trying to destroy our city, our country, by such actions, but we will not allow it to happen under any circumstances. This is our country. It is our city. It is the duty of all of us to protect them.
[Chance:] One of the groups that have claimed responsibility for the attack is a splinter group of the Pakistan Taliban, known for attacking soft targets like churches, mosques, children's parks and now a hospital. A place of healing, now a bloody reminder of one of the deadliest attacks in the country. Michael Holmes, CNN, London.
[Jones:] At least 23 people were hurt in Southern China when a dog went on a two-hour rampage. You can see a person fighting off the animal. The dog struck at victims randomly jumping and chomping down hard on passersby refusing to let go. Police eventually cornered the animal and killed it. It is still unclear if the dog had an owner or indeed what set it off. Stay with us. You're watching THE WORLD RIGHT NOW, live from London. Still ahead on the program, online radicalization is a major problem for the west. We'll look at one French jihadist who seems to know just how to entice his young, vulnerable fellow citizens. And a young British man is behind bars in the U.S., accused of wanting to kill Donald Trump. But his mother says her son has a serious mental illness. We're hear from her in just a few minutes on THE WORLD RIGHT NOW.