Israel says hamas gunmen often pose as aid workers. Not this time. Its army today said the killing of seven aid workers in air strikes this week was a grave mistake due to mistaken identification, errors in Decision Making and a serious violation of army procedures. The convoy belonging to the Charity World central kitchen was struck in central gaza late on monday night. Survivors running between the remaining vehicles before being hit again and then again. The army said its forces had mistaken the bag one passenger was carrying for a gun after Spotting Gunmen at the warehouse earlier. It was a visual confirmation of a gunman, first of all, on one of the trucks that then conducted shooting from one of the trucks. And when they indeed reached the hangars, there were more gunmen identified on the location. And it led basically to the entire miscalculation, misidentification and the failure of what should have happened. Israels army said the aid was picked up by lorry atiopm. The armed fi
To the Charity World Central Kitchen, was struck in central gaza late on monday night, survivors running between the remaining vehicles before being hit again and then again. The army said its forces had mistaken the bag one passenger was carrying for a gun after Spotting Gunmen at the warehouse earlier. It was a visual confirmation of a gunman, first of all, on one of the trucks that then conducted shooting from one of the trucks. And when they, indeed, reached the hangars, there were more gunmen identified on the location and it led, basically, to the entire miscalculation, misidentification and the failure of what shouldve happened. Israels army said the aid was picked up by lorry at 10pm. The armed figure was then Spotted Firing from one of the trucks before the convoy moved on with other vehicles to an inland warehouse, where Drone Footage showed more gunmen getting out of one car. That vehicle later moved north to another warehouse while the three cars from world Central Kitchen
good morning. welcome to morning joe. it is friday, december 8th. glad it s friday, but we do have a lot to get to this morning, willie. president biden is putting more pressure on israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to allow additional aid into gaza. we ll have more details on the first conversation between the two leaders in 11 days. a lot of questions. meanwhile, the president s son is facing several new tax charges. we ll break down the allegations against hunter biden. plus, a recap of donald trump s day in court for his civil tax fraud trial. he was there as the former president is now expected to be the last person to take the stand. that should happen next week. also ahead, a rare ruling in a post roe world. a judge in texas granted an emergency request for an abortion, but the state s attorney general is threatening to prosecute any doctor who treats the woman. we ll talk about that. with us, we have the host of way too early, white house bur
israel has continued its renewed bombardment of gaza for a third day having told more palestinians to leave areas in and around khan younis immediately. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 15 and a half thousand people have now been killed there since the start of the conflict between israel and hamas, which is considered a terrorist organisation by the uk government. these pictures were shot on sunday. children are among those being driven to the hospital carried inside by family and friends. for many, the journey to the hospital was too late. a senior adviser to the israeli prime minister has insisted israel is doing all it can to minimise the number of civilian deaths in gaza after the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, said israel had a moral responsiblity to minimise casualties not linked to hamas. our international editor jeremy bowen reports on the situation in the west bank and gaza. i should warn you the report contains footage, from the very
team 6 negotiators from qatar citing a dead end in talk as the idf strikes in gaza. this comes after a day s long cease-fire that led to hundreds of hostages removed from hamas. aishah. aishah: i m aishah hasnie. vowing to fight until the end and the forces will shift their focus to southern gaza. senior foreign affairs correspondent greg palkot is live in israel with us now with the latest developments and greg, you said in the past couple of hours here, you can hear the fighting. it s amazing stuff, yeah, aishah. it s not a quiet night here. we re about a mile away from the gaza strip and yes, that temporary cease-fire between israel and hamas is over. the fight is on. the last 10 minutes, for example, we ve seen massive air strikes hitting the center of the northern gaza area. throughout the day, israel rile artillery, tanks, ships firing off the coast as well as a lot of ground fire presumably between the two sides. israeli military spokesperson confirming that we ve be