Israel apologizes for a strike that killed aid workers delivering food in gaza. The lead starts right now unintentional targets. Thats how israel describes the drone strike that killed seven aid workers from All Over The World working for a celebrity chef, jose hey, on drafts and his World Central Kitchen organization. We are today learning the Identity Identities of those innocent victims and the circumstances that put Down The Line Of Fire plus the new republican attempt to rename an International Airport after one donald j. Trump democrats are responding today with anemia the idea of their own and what could be a last chance to write in some small way, a major wrong more than 100 years for the horrific Tulsa Race Massacre welcome to the lean. Im jake tapper and we start today with our worldleading and International Outrage over the deaths of seven aid workers, Including A Dual Canadian American Citizen in central gaza, killed is they were attempting to deliver food to stop Starving Palestinians despite coordinating the trip beforehand with israels military and traveling and vans marked with the World Central Kitchen logo on the roof of the vans. Israeli strikes hit the aid, cant convoy in a quote, Deconflicted Zone according to World Central Kitchen, israeli Prime MinisterBenjamin Netanyahu said that the strikes were unintentional, adding quote, it happens in war. But a british weapons expert, ill cnn that the strike was carried out with a quote, highly accurate drone World Central Kitchen founder, Chef Jose Andres posted quote, these are people, angels. The Israeli Government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing. It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, Stop Killing Civilians and aid workers now, World Central Kitchen is, kitchen is pausing altogether operations in gaza along with a different american charity, an era, one that provides 150,000 meals a day to palestinians in dire need of sustenance this afternoon the white house is john kirby, said that the us is quote, outraged over the strike. Kirby added that more than 200 aid workers have been killed during this conflict so far, kirby said israel must do quote and much more meeting to protect them at the same time, we should note the Biden Administration is close to approving a massive 18 billiondollar weapons sale to israel, which will include dozens of f 15 fighter jets as biden continues to press netanyahu to try to do more to spare innocent palestinian lives. Cnns Jeremy Diamond is bringing us the stories of the victims now a warning to our viewers, some of the scenes were about to show you are graphic there is no mistaking the target of this israeli strike. The World Central Kitchens logo still visible after a missile poor through the roof of this Vehicle Pieces of the Aid Organizations, emblems scattered throughout the charred whole of a second vehicle and then there are the bodies of the aid workers themselves patches proudly worn on chess over bulletproof vest that offered no more protection in gaza, then the emblem of the humanitarian Aid Organization they are among seven aid workers killed in israeli strikes on their convoy late monday night six of them were foreigners, Including A Dual American Canadian Citizen as well as british australian, and polish nationals triggering International Floor and prompting a rare acknowledgment of israeli responsibility from Prime Minister netanyahu. Lets solve no, by my mouth, when i am doggy, unfortunately, in the last day there was a tragic incident where our forces unintentionally struck innocent people in the gaza strip. It happens in war and we are thoroughly enjoyed investigating it World Central Kitchen says the Israeli Military knew about the Convoy Weapons Expert consulted by cnn images of the damage indicate a precise drone strike carried out with total visibility of the target World Central Kitchen said its aid workers got into three vehicles after Unloading Aid at this warehouse in central gaza. And began traveling down the coastal Al Rashid Street cnn geolocated the convoys deadly journey using images filmed at the scene threeandahalf miles south of first vehicle is struck, two other strikes rained down in quick succession. One vehicle is hit a halfmile further third comes to a stop. Another mile down the road, found only the next day a little bit for you after last night between 11 00 and 11 30 p. M. A missile hit a car. When we approached, we saw the car on fire we try to extinguish the fire and upon opening the cargo, we discovered boxes of canned meat. It was an International Aid organisation that assists people. Any international or European Organization that comes to aid gaza will be targeted they want to send a message of dont can, you can let the people die shabby . The Israeli Military has struck aid convoys in the past, including this un truck which was shelled in early february World Central Kitchen, founded in 2010 by celebrity Chef Jose Andres, has been one of the most prominent Aid Organizations in gaza even working with the Israeli Military last month to build a pier off the gaza coastline, delivering the first aid shipments to gaza by sea. This is all manchester today were the date of alaska australian Zomi Frankcom spent years coordinating Aid Operations for World Central Kitchen risking and ultimately sacrificing her life to help those in need. She died alongside her polish colleague, Damian Sobol Hello everyone, who came from carroll weeks earlier, he was excitedly readying a convoy to build Soup Kitchens in gaza tables, shell water system. Today, their bodies were among those headed for the rafah Border Crossing but the. Body of one of the seven will not leave gaza saif issam abutaha, a driver and translator, was buried in central gaza not far from where he carried out his final mission. And jake, three of the seven aid workers killed were british nationals today, these really Prime Minister fielding a call from his british counterpart, Prime Minister sunak demanding a thorough and transparent independent investigation into the matter. In the meantime, World Central Kitchen says spending its Aid Operations in gaza at a time when hundreds of thousands are already facing the prospect of famine. Jake, Jeremy Diamond in jerusalem. Thank you so much for joining us now is brian weaver. You just saw his friend does frankcom in jeremys p she was from australia. She was killed in the israeli strike i. First of all, i have no words for you and im so im so sorry thanks. As always awful to lose a friend. But she was obviously a very special person, the kind of person that would devote her life to be bringing food to people in dire need and including in dangerous places. You say she was a warrior for humanity. Tell us about sami. I met zombie in 2018 when i was working at a Basketball Camp in guatemala there was a volcano that erupted on their killed about 200 people zombie light was part of the organizing Group WithoutWorld Central Kitchen, who just started getting food out to families and to rescue workers indomitable spirit, just like immediately doing that. And then when World Central Kitchen came, they recognize her talents and part of that sort of australian wanderlust she just jumped on the World Central Kitchen and then went to every hotspot you can imagine world how long was she in gaza working with World Central Kitchen . What did you did you talk to her . Did she tell you better . We exchanged messages. She spent some time in haiti, so we exchanged messages over the situation in haiti about two weeks ago. I guess it was about then she started to prepare to go on that trip, but she hadnt been in country that long. Thats subject to be calling from haiti to gaza. I mean, this is somebody who is going to the most dangerous places in the world to do good, to try to help the people who are the suffering. Theres, theres the saying which is where my needs meet or where do my gifts meet the needs of the world and zombie had this like amazing smile. If you see any of the photos of her particularly if shes like giving meals. So children or things like that, you cant tell who who is like the recipient and then who is the caregiver its an exquisitely did sort of mutuality between between the two of them. I think that that was like her greatest gift to World Central Kitchen was that she moments when people had the worst moment of their entire lives, she met them with a smile. She met them with humanity. And the world is just like a darker place without somebody like that today, its really, really tragic than she ever express concerns about her safety in any of these places, including gaza. I mean, i think we talked a lot about like about her time in haiti. I think it was just one of the navigation of the war loads and things like that. But people got to eat. Weve got to feel comfort she hit me back. She was like, theres the Mother Teresa line which is i think we just forgot that we belong to each other. And that was zombie out her core. But as the children that she fed in palestine of the children that she had in haiti or the ukraine. She viewed them and its like part of her larger extended family and thats a unique characteristic in anyone because even even for Large Organizations like World Central Kitchen, there has to be less certain degree of being cold, of just having to go and do this thing over and over again. Zombie really had this view of life the experience was going to be so lifechanging for her and that she wanted to bring just a touch of humanity to two folks that were going through the worst moment of their lives and you also work in this world of ngos and healthier people. How it tell us what you do and how adh is it, how rare is it . I should say for a group like World Central Kitchen or monera to pull out of a place where their health is so dire, need it. I mean, i think that says a lot. I think i mean, if if if you really, really sort of looking for that sort of hidden message to the Israeli Government. I think thats probably it. Its like that urine because weve got to have to remember that the idf if its actually part of dulling the pier and were part of were part of actually helping them get the food in. And the first thing because it seems just they were constant communication. So it seems really hard to think that this is just a rogue drone that did something accidentally for me i worked with a lot of inner city kids in washington, dc. The violence is sort of touched everyones homes and try to give them a a worldview. Have them go on like do Service Trips overseas, because you normally wouldnt get a chance to travel for zombie traveled with so much of her life that she immediately jumped onto like our program and life was just like fresh is about seeing that people whove first chance of actually seeing the world and i dont know, its, its something in this time in the world to have more people that want to go out and meet people have differences and sort of see the similarities in each other rather than the things that make us different. It so special and im so sorry. May her memory be a blessing . And im sure it would be a good way for anybody at home. It would be a good way to honor her to give a donation to World Central Kitchen, where she worked she worked and im so sorry. Thank you very jake, im so sorry. Thank you for sharing a little bit as ami with the rest of us who didnt have the benefit of knowing her. Thank you. Appreciate it. Today, iran is vowing revenge for the israeli strike at an Embassy Compound in syria that killed at least seven iranian officials, including two Senior Iranian military commanders. Now, the government going to israel says this was not a consulate or an embassy. Rather it belongs to the quds force thats a branch of irans Islamic Revolutionary guardcore that has been labeled a Terrorist Organization by the United States, iran and syria, say that israel is now behind the most significant attack on an iranian target since former President Trump ordered the assassination of general Qassem Soleimani in 2020, iran also said that they would hold the United States quote answerable due to the us support of israel, former Secretary Of Defense under donald trump, mark esper joins us now secretary esper, its good to see you. How big of an escalation was this attack . And are you confident that israels intelligence was accurate when they describe this compound good afternoon jake. Look, i think it is significant. It is an explicit attack that israel has acknowledged against a Senior Iranian general in syria. They are claiming it had some type of diplomatic status. Im not sure that really matter. But the fact is they, they attacked and killed several senior quds force persons and allegedly also some syrians and some Palestinian Islamic jihad personnel the belief is they were plotting next moves in syria against israel so protesters in tehran burned american and israeli flags following the attack. Of course, we never have any idea how, how organic any of these protests are in iran, how concerned you think us officials should be . About any retaliation from iran against the United States. And what form do you think . Do you think do you expect retaliation might take look, i think we always seem to be concerned about retaliation, particularly when you have a strike like this, again, which was which was a stepup in terms of the israeli, iranian shadow war. Thats been going on for many, many years now. And of course, iran has threatened to respond to both israel and the United States. They hold us responsible for israels actions, much like we hold them responsible for the actions of hamas, hezbollah, the houthis, et cetera. So i im sure central command, which is responsible for the theater, is watching careful and being careful. But look on the other hand, theres not much iran can do a trap has been sent in some ways. If they were to act directly and explicitly against us or israel targets, then they risked provoking a much wider regional war that they certainly dont want. And we probably dont want right now either. So that the be careful, but i do think that they will step back up their proxy attacks its important to note, jake, as you recall after us forces were attacked over 150 times over the preceding five months in january, the iranians proxies finally killed an american. We responded fairly aggressively, and its been relatively quiet in the two months since that attack. So that was a good example. The use of use us force to reassert deterrence. But i think weve got to watch out to see if that starts to crumble a little bit. I want to get your reaction to the deadly israeli strike on the World Central Kitchen workers in gaza really horrible. And it does seem as though theres a look on no military expert. Well, let me ask you, does it seem as though there was a recklessness at all when the israelis are picking targets here well, first of all, it is a terrible tragedy in the interview you just did was was really touching the insights about the aid worker that was killed. But look after six months, jake, one would exp