War against them anymore. It is a war against humanity itself. Norah the growing outrage as we learn about the victims, including an american citizen. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We begin tonight with the mounting questions and worldwide outrage after that israeli air strike in gaza that killed seven humanitarian workers from the global aid Charity World central kitchen. New tonight, the groups founder, chef jose andres, is speaking out with a scathing rebuke of israels Indiscriminate Killing of civilians, urging officials to begin the long germany know my journey to peace. Andres is also accusing the Israeli Military of knowing of the age groups movements in the region and then targeting the 3car convoy of armored vehicles, in his words, systematically, car by car. We are also learning more about the victims, including 33yearold job flickinger, a dual u. S. Canadian citizen. The american father was reportedly plann
No question about that. We obviously respect andres decision not to continue operations at least for a time. Certainly we respect that. And others may make that decision as you talk about the world food program. Were not seeing any wholesale declination of humanitarian assistance, but yes, thats a concern. The more violent it gets for humanitarian aid workers, the less likely it is theyre going to be willing to take those risks, which means its more likely the people of gaza are going to suffer more. So yes, its a concern. Thank you. Secretary blinken during his presser in paris did not condemn the air strike even though as you confirmed there was a dual American Citizen who was killed. The French Foreign minister who was at the same presser did. You said youre outraged. Why is the u. S. Not condemning the strike . I think by saying were outraged, i think you can fairly characterize that as condemning the strike. Of course. Nobody wants to see this kind of violence happening to humanit
Hugo bachega reports. Elad katzir kidnapped in southern israel six months ago, his body returned from gaza today. The Israeli Military says he was murdered in captivity by the islamicjihad group. And that his body was found in khan younis overnight. During the attack on a kibbutz in october, elads father was killed and his mother was abducted but freed in a deal in november. In a facebook post, his sister blamed the Israeli Government for his death. In gaza, a desperate wait for food amid warnings of famine. Aid deliveries have been, at best, sporadic, but when help does arrive, people rush to get it. Translation when we were displaced at the beginning, we used to eat rotten bread because of the high prices of food here. This is the only place where i can get food for my children. The attack on a convoy that killed seven aid workers this week has put even more pressure on israel. From the us came a warning it should do more to boost humanitarian assistance and protect civilians and aid
And that his body was found in khan younis overnight. During the attack on a kibbutz in october, elads father was killed and his mother was abducted but freed in a deal in november. In a facebook post, his sister blamed the Israeli Government for his death. In gaza, a desperate wait for food amid warnings of famine. Aid deliveries have been, at best, sporadic, but when help does arrive, people rush to get it. Translation when we were displaced at the beginning, we used to eat rotten bread because of the high prices of food here. This is the only place where i can get food for my children. The attack on a convoy that killed seven aid workers this week has put even more pressure on israel. From the us came a warning it should do more to boost humanitarian assistance and protect civilians and aid workers or risk losing american support. The World Food Programme has been able to serve 1 Million People every month with food because they completely depend on us. But we have challenges. We do
washington. we begin with new developments out of israel where the israeli military has as released a preliminary report on its killing of seven aid workers in gaza. the investigation finds a series of devastating mistakes unfolded earlier this week when three vehicles carrying the world central kitchen workers traveled outside the combat zone those vehicles were hit in three separate strikes over the course of almost a mile and a half israel says it was a case of mistaken identification after two gunman were spotted nearby, quoting from the report, one of the commanders, the israeli say mistakenly assumed that the gunman were located inside the accompanying vehicles and that they these were hamas terrorist. the idf has fired two senior officers. i want to bring in cnn s nic robertson are international diplomatic editor nick, does the report answer all the questions? it still seems to leave some questions outstanding. for example, the world central kitchen said that they we