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A report prepared by Suhaib Al-Assa for Al-Jazeera revealed details of the Israeli army’s targeting of the World Central Kitchen relief team while they were delivering aid to civilians in the Gaza Strip.

According to the report, a convoy of four-wheel drive vehicles moved at ten o’clock in the evening on Monday, the first of April, from a food warehouse in the vicinity of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

The convoy was heading from east to west towards Al-Rashid Street, which is the safe route that Israel has drawn for anyone who wants to move from the center of the Strip to its south and vice versa.

Continuous targeting

Moments after the convoy reached Al-Rashid Street, one of the cars received the first strike, in which no one was injured. The workers left the car and moved to another armored car, but it was targeted less than 800 meters away, killing 5 of the workers, including a Palestinian and 4 foreigners.

Simultaneously with the second strike, communication was lost with two of the crew who were in the third car, about 1,600 meters ahead of their colleagues, and the next morning it became clear that the third car had received a strike that pushed it toward agricultural land to the east.

The bodies of an Australian and a Canadian who had been killed the previous evening were found in the targeted car. Despite all this, Israel says that all these details were just a grave mistake from which it will learn.

But CNN quoted a former British intelligence officer that the operation was most likely carried out with high-precision missiles launched by a drone.

At the same time, the organization had complained about an Israeli sniper shooting at one of its cars a few days ago, according to what was reported by the American newspaper "The Washington Post". However, the newspaper "Haaretz" quoted sources in military intelligence that the Israeli leadership knew exactly the reason for the attack on the convoy.

While army commanders say that what happened was “the result of a grave error,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that a mistaken attack led to the killing of aid workers and that this is something that happens in war.

The founder of the targeted organization, José Andres, responded by saying that the attack was deliberate on clearly marked cars.

Andres confirmed that the Israeli army was fully aware of the convoy's movements, describing what happened as "the result of a policy that led to reducing humanitarian aid to desperate levels."

Source: Al Jazeera