An Israeli air strike on an aid convoy carrying food and fuel to aGaza hospital killed four Palestinians on Thursday, US-based aid group Anera said as Israel claimed they were “armed assailants,” which the group denied. The four Palestinians were in the lead vehicle of an Anera aid convoy bound for the Emirati Red Crescent Hospital in Rafah in southern Gaza, the aid group said in a statement on Friday. Soon after the convoy left the Israel-controlledKerem Shalom (Kareem Abu Salem) crossing into Gaza, four Palestinians from the community “took control of the leading vehicle, citing concern that…