An Israeli inquiry into the killing of seven aid workers in an air strike in Gaza this week found serious errors and breaches of procedure by the military, with the result that two officers have been dismissed and senior commanders formally reprimanded.
The inquiry found Israeli forces mistakenly believed they were attacking Hamas gunmen when drone strikes hit the three vehicles of the World Central Kitchen aid group late on Monday night, and that standard procedures had been violated.
“The strike on the aid vehicles is a grave mistake stemming from a serious failure due to a mistaken identification, errors in decision-making, and an attack contrary to the Standard Operating Procedures,” the military said in a statement issued on Friday.
The killing of the seven aid workers, who included citizens of Britain, Australia and Poland, a dual U.S. Canadian national and a Palestinian colleague, triggered global outrage this week.
One vehicle could be a mistake. Three vehicles spread over kilometers that were coordinating with the IDF cannot be a mistake.
It’s kinda funny that, like Russia, this invasion is just showing how a an ‘elite’, ‘gold-standard’, ‘most-moral’ military in the world is simply incompetent at actually running a war.
Given individual missions, soldiers can shoot their way in and out but they can’t handle communication between units.
I have to imagine the groups coordinating the safe passage of aid trucks are either shitting all over the missile teams in the post-op briefings or filled with absolute dumbasses.
Or communication isn’t the issue and the IDF is full of people who have been taught that the end justifies the means.
The vast number of aid workers and journalists killed is a good sign that communication and target misidentification isn’t the problem. The IDF is fine with killing anyone who they see as getting in the way.
They’re just sorry they got caught
Here we go… trying to save face by sacrificing individuals
Honestly it wouldn’t surprise me to find out it’s all a lie and nothing has happened to anyone over this.
Just Bibi trying to cover his nazi, new holocaust tracks.
Two dismissals and some reprimands for such an obvious warcrime? Seriously?
They believed they were attacking Hamas gunmen…who were driving in a van that said “World Central Kitchen” on the roof? Pardon me if that does not seem like the most believable thing.
They can say it was at night so they couldn’t read the logo or whatever. Regardless, the command structure that allowed this blindfolded and earplugged strike, where command authorities aren’t informed of the coordination between aid groups and the IDF contacts extends beyond just the people fired and reprimanded.
Their excuses for these types of mistakes indicate a structured campaign of indiscriminate murder.
