Israeli military sacks senior officers after aid workers killed in Gaza - they mistook a bag for a rifle, IDF says

 The Israeli military has sacked two senior officers after seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) aid workers were killed in a strike in Gaza on Monday

1. The IDF's inquiry into the incident says some workers survived initial air strikes, but were killed when a third car was hit
2. Israel said earlier this week the incident was a "grave mistake". It vowed to take "immediate action" to ensure that more was done to protect aid workers
3. WCK and other aid agencies have paused their operations in Gaza, where the UN estimates 1.1 million people - half the population - are facing catastrophic hunger 
   
   
   
   It comes after Israel says it has approved the opening of two routes into Gaza for humanitarian deliveries - including the Erez Gate and Ashdod Port
4. More aid from Jordan will also be allowed to enter via the Kerem Shalom Crossing
5. In their first call since the strike, Joe Biden tells Benjamin Netanyahu that US support for Israel will depend on steps being taken to "address civilian harm" in Gaza.

6. The IDF goes on to set out the military's movements.

   It says they then tracked the convoy, including the aid lorry, to a warehouse.

   At this point the convoy splits, the aid lorry remains in the warehouse, and four SUV type cars emerge. One of those vehicles heads north, and is then shown to contain gunmen, with weapons clearly visible from the drone footage, as they emerge next to another aid warehouse.

   The IDF says that these gunmen were not targeted, because of their proximity to an aid facility.

   Meanwhile, three remaining vehicles, that belong to World Central Kitchen, begins to head south.

   The drone team, the army says, now working under the assumption that they are dealing with Hamas militants and not an aid convoy, had misidentified one of the aid workers as gunmen, and claimed to have seen them enter one of the three WCK cars.

   No footage of this moment was provided, but the military investigation concluded that it was a “misclassification. . . they saw that it’s a rifle but at the end of the day it was a bag”.

   Under the mistaken belief that one vehicle now contained a gunman, authorisation to fire a missile is sought, and granted by superior officers. At 23:09 the first vehicle is struck, two minutes later the second, and at 23:13 the third final, fatal strike is launched, the IDF says.

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