This wasn’t an accident. It was no mistaken misfire.
The IDF cell monitoring the autos fired deadly precision guided missiles into every automobile, one after the opposite.
By means of blurred night-time surveillance footage, they noticed what they thought was a person carrying a gun and assumed he was a Hamas fighter.
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They then assumed everybody else travelling within the autos had been additionally Hamas. There was no proof for this.
They saved firing as a result of they noticed passengers nonetheless alive.
A World Central Kitchen automobile wrecked by an Israeli strike. Pic: AP
The fundamental failure to go particulars of the help convoy down the chain of command is a damning stain on a army that thinks of itself as being among the best on the earth.
The choice to launch airstrikes with the intent of killing folks, based mostly on unsound proof, raises deeply troubling questions of ethics in fight.
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It is a unhappy irony, that one of many solely causes that World Central Kitchen (WCK) was working at evening was due to their beforehand good working relationship with the Israeli army.
A British safety adviser who has been working in Gaza in current months, informed me that few different organisations journey after darkish, however it helps cease looting and WCK would have been assured it may transfer safely with IDF assist and co-ordination.
John Chapman, James Henderson and James Kirby all died within the Israeli strike
Had six of the seven killed not been overseas support staff, whose deaths triggered a world outcry, then this investigation wouldn’t have occurred, and the Israeli army wouldn’t have been pressured to clarify its actions.
What number of Palestinian civilians due to this fact have been killed in related, uninvestigated instances of mistaken id? We’ll most likely by no means know.
Requires the UK to droop arms gross sales to Israel will undoubtedly develop following publication of those findings, nonetheless the British authorities is unlikely to base any determination on this one occasion.
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UK arms gross sales to Israel are minuscule, making up solely round 0.02% of the nation’s annual imports – any suspension due to this fact could be extra symbolic than materially consequential, and to make the decision solely because of this incident could be disproportionate.
Nevertheless, if authorities attorneys imagine this wasn’t an remoted case, then the Overseas Workplace might need no alternative however to behave.
