More on the Australian government review of World Central Kitchen deaths
Earlier, we reported that an Australian government review into the Israeli military’s killing in Gaza of several aid workers from US-based NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK) concluded that “serious failures” such as “mistaken identification” resulted in their deaths.
The Australian review also said Israeli forces launched missiles at the convoy after mistakenly believing Hamas fighters had hijacked it. The armed personnel they saw were, in fact, locally-contracted security guards.
Australian Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, who travelled to Israel to investigate the deaths, said “controls failed, leading to errors in decision making and a misidentification”.
“Based on the information available to me, it is my assessment that the [Israeli military] strike on the WCK aid workers was not knowingly or deliberately directed against the WCK,” he said.
UN staff inspect the carcass of a car used by US-based aid group World Central Kitchen that was hit by an Israeli air strike in Deir el-Balah, central Gaza, on April 2
Huh? They mistakenly believed the WCK convoy was hijacked, but weren't deliberately targeting the WCK convoy they believed was hijacked? Wouldn't a simple call to the WCK have confirmed there was no hijacking... They all have radios to stay in contact.
There was a lot of time between the first strike and the other two. Is Australia trying to cover for the IDF by rewriting history?
They knowingly and deliberately targeted the aid convoy. The excuse of it being hijacked doesn't fly.
They had well over half an hour to contact the WCK from the time they believed the convoy was hijacked 22:28 (which were the security guards boarding) until the first strike 23:09. They knew full well there were aid workers on board as they didn't see anyone leave the convoy... Nor did they care about the car splitting off and unloading at 22:46 and 23:06...
More poor excuses, but nothing will come from it anyway. All the promises and measures to do better led nowhere, the opposite in fact.
