The Israel Defense Forces said Friday that 'those who approved the strike were convinced that they were targeting armed Hamas operatives,' calling the attack 'a grave mistake stemming from a serious failure due to a mistaken identification.'
Israel's military has fired two senior officers after concluding Monday's attack that killed seven food aid workers in Gaza was in "serious violation" of its commands.
Seven aid workers - three Britons, a Palestinian, a US-Canadian dual citizen, an Australian and a Pole - were killed in Monday's strikes on cars operated by the World Central Kitchen , setting off fury in those countries. Later, as three WCK vehicles left the warehouse, a commander "mistakenly assumed that the gunmen were located inside the accompanying vehicles and that these were Hamas terrorists," the report said.
Some of the WCK workers in the first car survived the initial strike and fled to the next car in the convoy, the spokesperson added, only for that vehicle to also be targeted. The report said there were three strikes on the convoy. It is unlikely to be the final word on a fatal attack that has hardened the ire of Western countries towards Israel's conduct in Gaza, and accelerated debates in several nations about whether military aid to Israel should be halted.
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