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On the front page of the press, the indignation caused by the death, on Monday, in Gaza, of seven humanitarian workers from the American NGO World Central Kitchen, in Israeli strikes.
Rare enough to be noted, the event made the headlines on Wednesday morning in the conservative Israeli press, usually reluctant to discuss civilian deaths in Gaza. “The world wants answers for the deaths of humanitarian workers”: the
Jerusalem
Post reports the opening of an investigation by the Israeli army to shed light on this “disastrous murder, committed by mistake”. Even rarer, the very right-wing and pro-Netanyahu
Israel Hayom
, shows the roof of one of the vehicles where the humanitarians were, ripped open by one of the three missiles fired by an Israeli drone. The newspaper, which describes the facts as an "incident", reports President Joe Biden's "preaching" on Israel's obligation to protect humanitarian workers.
The indignation is particularly strong in the United Kingdom, where three of the humanitarian workers killed came from.
The Daily Express
specifies that the three men, James Henderson, John Chapman, as well as James Kirby, were all former soldiers. “Killed for trying to feed children dying of starvation,” protests
The Daily Mirror
, which denounces “a merciless attack.” According to
The Guardian
, the deaths of World Central Kitchen humanitarians led several other NGOs to suspend their operations in Gaza. The British daily also discusses the testimony of nine doctors who worked in Gaza – including eight foreign volunteers. These doctors report a "constant flow" of injured people, including children and the elderly, arriving "with gunshot wounds to the head or chest", which suggests, according to them, that these victims could have been directly targeted by Israeli snipers.
The event also sparked outrage in Spain, where World Central Kitchen founder José Andres is from.
El Pais
recalls that the Spanish-American chef founded his association in 2010, at the time of the earthquake in Haiti, to help victims of natural disasters. Ten years later, his NGO also works with victims of wars, in Ukraine, as in Gaza, where it began delivering aid a month ago, via a maritime corridor from Cyprus, in collaboration with the Spanish charity Open Arms.
El Mundo
, for its part, criticizes the reaction of the Israeli Prime Minister, who declared, the day after the death of the humanitarian workers: "Unfortunately, a tragic incident occurred, our forces having unintentionally struck innocent people in the Gaza Strip. This happens in a war."
Haaretz
, the left-wing Israeli newspaper, has another explanation. The daily claims that the seven humanitarian workers were killed "because the officers on the ground do what they want." "The Israeli army and the Defense Ministry claim that the killing of the aid workers was the result of poor coordination, but sources within the Israeli army refute these explanations, and say that the incident was due to makes each commander set the rules himself,” accuses the newspaper.
Haaretz
, which once again calls for an end to the war in Gaza on Wednesday morning.
The Guardian
, which mentions the attack on the humanitarian convoy, but also the assassination of officials of the Iranian Al-Quds force in diplomatic premises in Syria and the devastating IDF raid on the Al-Chifa hospital in Gaza, estimates that these facts prove that Israel "pays no attention to either its allies or their critics." Israel's allies, whom the British daily urges to finally translate their indignation into action.
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