The Israeli military plans to remove two officers from their posts following the fatal attack on employees of the aid organization World Central Kitchen in the Gaza Strip. Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi has decided to dismiss a responsible commander and the chief of staff of the responsible brigade, the military announced on Friday. Media reports said other commanders had been given a warning. An army investigation published on Friday came to the conclusion that the incident on Monday was a
World Central Kitchen (WCK) said on Thursday that its aid convoy was deliberately "targeted" by a deadly Israeli airstrike in Gaza, rebuffing Israeli statements that it was a tragic, but mistaken, attack. "This was a military attack that involved multiple strikes and targeted three WCK vehicles," WCK chief executive officer Erin Gore and executive co-chairman Javier Garcia said in a joint statement. "All three vehicles were carrying civilians; they were marked as WCK vehicles; and their movement
The bodies of foreign aid workers killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip were transferred to Egypt's Rafah border crossing, an Egyptian broadcaster reported on Wednesday. State-linked al-Qahera News TV said ambulances carrying the bodies of a number of the relief workers arrived at the Egyptian side of the Rafah crossing near Gaza. Seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) employees were killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip on Monday as they were returning from a full day's mission