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 were in coordination with the idf, that they were following the protocols that the idf outlines for them to do. so, in which case, why does the idf report say that? the commanders in charge of firing at these three suvs. why did they not understand that these suvs were associated with the world central kitchen? well the initial indications from the idf indicate that this was happening at night and they couldn't see the identification on the vehicle but that doesn't really get to that central issue. if there was coordination why did they not realize that? how would they not sort of temur those pieces of information up? another point that doesn't seem to be answered here is if the idf had spotted gunman on the trucks, that aid trucks easily the big trucks before they went into the convoy. how can they link the suv's carrying the aid workers later on specifically with the with hamas. now, the idf's separate briefing to reporters, they said they thought they had spotted something look like a weapon over the shoulder one of the people in those vehicles that they slater decided was actually a bag. so it doesn't there's that piece of detail that hasn't been fully explained. the idf has said that what happened happened outside of their rules of engagement, which is why they've disciplined officials, but we don't know what the ids rules let's of engagement are they don't make those public and they have said that the rules of engagement change in different situations. so there's still a lot of questions to be answered here, jim >> and they're just quick follow-up. how is the world central kitchen responding? >> yeah. they're saying look, the fact that the idf has exactly responsibility has said that they were following the protocols that they should have been following the fact that the idea has taken disciplinary action against a major and a kernel reserve kernel. they say is a step. but for these outrageous killings they say, the reports so far is cold comfort plus the world central kitchen say they were shown a video by the idf that was intended to support what the idf has talked about gunman on the trucks, the world central kitchen, say the video that they've seen that they'd been shown how they'd been shown it so far. >> it's not they can't see what the idf is telling them in that about the gunman. they don't get it. so they don't think the video is explanation of what's in the report either >> all right. now, nic robertson, thank you very much. we really appreciate it and joining us now is tall heinrich, spokeswoman for israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, tile. thank you very much for being here. how do you respond to the criticism that this report does not fully explain what happened >> well, thank you for having beyond this morning, jim, i think this was a preliminary report. that preliminary preliminary assessment, and we will have to wait for the final findings of this investigation. you see this? i think it's a matter drove days, weeks, it's not a matter of months >> and when we do >> something wrong, when there's a mistake made on our behalf on israel side, we take responsibility, we say the truth, we admit things, even when it's the most painful, inconvenient truth to admit that i think people have, have to remember that that was a very, very tragic incidents involving the unsung heroes of world central kitchen is one of my colleagues calls them unsung heroes of armed conflict >> it should not have >> happened, and we should draw the right conclusions and implement lessons in order for this knots to reoccur and already i can tell you that we've set up a situation room for better coordination between the idf and these eight groups on the ground, because there are doing the all-important work. >> and this >> specific organization, by the way, they were one of the first ones to show up right after october 7, being there on the ground or civilians on both sides of the border? >> yeah, until the convoy was marked with the logos of the world central kitchen and world central kitchen says it was coordinating its movements with the idf. how could your forces make such a grave mistake as your government has described it? >> well, mistakes you see mistakes, tragedies happen during wars and it's not a war that we wanted. it's not a war that we started you and i would not have been having this conversation. if hamas had not invaded our country with their army of terrorist on october 7, that is very, very unfortunate, but you know, and you come conflicts around the world. i believe we're us forces have been involved and mistakes tragically yet they, they do happen, but we have to draw the right lessons to make sure that they don't happen again and i do want to ask you about the humanitarian corridors that are being opened up, your government has announced that in a phone call yesterday, president biden, though, did deliver a stark warning to the prime minister saying, taking, they need to take steps. the israelis do to ease the humanitarian crisis in gaza or risk losing us support. and i did want to ask you a specific question about that. is israel pledging to not only open up these corridors that you've announced, but also to assure that they are safe enough for aid workers to do what they do. are you going to make that pledge? >> well, you see let me first less than the number of steps that we have decided upon a war cabinet convened a yesterday and the end of the meeting a few more steps were announced. we decided that we will enable the temporary insertion of humanitarian aid through the maritime fourth in ashdod, the erez border crossing, which is a pedestrian crossing in the northern part of the gaza strip. and it was stormed by these terrorists on october 7, as well as an increase of the jordanian aid. the humanitarian assistance that will continue to be facilitated via the kerem shalom. >> i think it's a mournful for viewers to understand that there's more food trucks entering gaza. now, daily, then before the war, so aid is flowing into gaza, 240 trucks today, yesterday, the day before a couple of hundred trucks a day were talking about more than a quarter million tons of food we just right. >> but my question my question is about the safety of these workers, nearly 200 humanitarian aid workers have been killed in gaza since the war began. as israel had a policy of shooting first and asked him, i don't know. >> again, i don't know about these numbers. i i don't know about these numbers. i don't know where are you taking them from but again, i don't have these numbers are numbers that are coming from gaza, which i don't i take with a grain of salt, but again, specifically talking about this incident, we should do everything in our power to make sure that anything nothing of this kind will ever read the, of course, so this is why we set up the situation room for better coordination. and of course there's a lot of focus on that too, because you mentioned the phone call washington and jerusalem. we do want the same things. we want to see hamas eliminated. we want to see all hostages returning home and he gaza, they will never pose a terror threat to israel again. and while we're working towards these goals, we want to see minimal civilian suffering, minimal collateral damage in gaza, which of these would you say would you >> say that there has been minimal tall, would you say that they're just objectively speaking, there hasn't been minimal civilian suffering. there has been great civilian suffering isn't that right? well, this is a war that we didn't start and we didn't want and the civilian suffering, i you miss the second part of my sentence that these are two things that come must continuously seeks to increase because this is what their entire strategy gym and you knowing very well is based upon de that is the will take the fire for their vial actions. and as international pressure will be used as leverage on israel instead of on the asking about their day to carry out another tall or seventh mass? yeah. >> i hear what you're saying and we have covered all of that extensively, but you have said and your government is so do you want to make sure hamas never rules again in gaza? i do want to ask you if you can explain the fact that your government allowed the funding of hamas for years. we can show our viewers this story in the new york times. it says quote, for years the qatari government had been sending millions of dollars into the gaza strip. money that helped prop up the hamas government primary mr. benjamin netanyahu of israel, not only tolerated those payments, he had encouraged them, shouldn't the prime minister be held accountable for encouraging the funding of hamas? >> let's set the record straight here. >> money that went into gaza, if it's from the palestinian authority, if it's money from qatar was meant for the benefit of the civilians of gaza. there's no illusion in israel, not of the prime minister, not of andy wanted endo was no illusion about hamas even prior to a over seventh, the prime minister in 2005 year resigned after the gaza disengagement to act in back then, he said that hamas was running, hamas was running gaza. he had to know that the money was going to go to with it. >> but if hamas was a tall, if >> hamas was running gaza than he had to know that money was essentially flowing to hamas whether it was going to go to civilians or whatever >> let me i hear your concern about money from qatar, but, you know, let's let's talk about us taxpayer money that went to the palestinians for, you know, throughout the years one, two, unwra, and eventually ended up inciting tara and and building these terror towels as well in the terror infrastructure >> united states, you have to focus on the blending of the past is that what are you saying? >> i'm just saying that >> right. well, i'm asking i'm asking you about the prime minister authorizing this money going to hamas essentially and all i'm saying there would be accountability notion i'm talking about the general notion here that any kind of money that was meant to the benefit of the palestinian people, no metric at word came from eventually went to funding terrorism, inciting the murdering of the jewish people and prime minister know who hamas was. >> the main impediment if he's now, did he make a bad bet segall make a bad bet. he knew who hamas was. he knew they were capable of there was one your government prior to october 7 this is why i was saying that moving forward learning from past mistakes, we should all >> demand that any kind of reconstruction of gaza should be intertwined with deradicalization of the palestinian society because we can't have money going to fund terrorism yeah >> all right. towel heinrich. i hope we can continue this discussion. thank you very much for your time this morning. we appreciate it >> thank you >> and i want to discuss born out with cnn military analysts and retired lieutenant general mark hertling, he's the former commanding general of the us army, europe and seventh army general hurtling thanks so much i'm sure for being with us. i do want to try if we can to get to the bottom of how this happened. and i know we can't do it in this hour, but let's give it a try. i want to put up a map. we were shown to our viewers yesterday of the strikes on the three world central kitchen vehicles. these vehicles were almost a mile and a half of part one clearly how a bright world central kitchen logo on the top of the car, although the idf says they couldn't see it because it was dark. a weapons expert told cnn that the operation would have included use of a surveillance drone general the idf is saying that they miss identified these vehicles as being associated with hamas because of, based on quote, gunman that they thought they saw around these vehicles. what do you make of the explanations you're hearing so far from the israeli government about this >> a couple of things, jim, first of all, i miss heinrich is correct and this is the first time i've heard this, that this is a preliminary report. i said yesterday that if the israeli government was going to put out a complete report on this incident within days. it was probably going to miss quite a few things and she cleared, clarified that the comment about the markings of the world central kitchen vehicles on the top and on the sides i disagree with your expert who says that a surveillance drone should have picked get up you don't pick up anything like that at nighttime with a surveillance drone or an aircraft. >> so >> that that is there's been a lot made of that it's really even difficult to see those kind of markings during a de by a jet or a drone yeah, it's just too much of an instance in two small of a marking having said that, though, you can take a look at the destruction of the vehicles, those were in my view, 99% sure they were conducted by a drone strike because of indicators like a hole in the roof as opposed to an explosion which would have caused the vehicle the completely be destroyed and thrown off the side of the road. here's a whole group and then it burned inside. that tells me it was a low yield weapon meant to assassinate who was ever inside those vehicles. it's a different kind of weapon. thirdly, the distance that's being cited. the 1.4 to 1.8 kilometers that the convoy travelled. that's understandable. if there if this was true julio target. i said yesterday, jim, that having run targeting cells that actually go after terrorists like that, you look at a couple of things. you look at it. first of all, the cell is going to look at the intelligence they receive, the type of target it's going to be, how fast they have to engage the target. and then there's the communication between the lawyer pearson are checking it out. the target tears the intelligence people that commanders it, say pull the trigger, and then the process of actually having the weapon hit whatever it's aimed at so all of those areas have the potential for destruction >> and >> that's a problem with looking into something like this. >> yeah, in general, i mean, the world central kitchen also said they were coordinating their movements with the idf i mean, do those do those deconfliction heads up? i guess you could call them. do they go far enough >> yeah well, they certainly should, jim and i again, with experience, i had organizations non-governmental organizations that coordinated with my headquarters in combat it said, here's what we're going to do. and you watched those close, you are, you should i don't know what the disconnect was. again, it has to do with either the intelligence the target hears, or the coordination of the actual movement in those moments, you also have to say, we're going to be here to there during this certain amount of time. so if there's any delay in that or if there are indicators that a non-government organization has terrorists within the convoy then it kind of opens up the aperture a little bit on how you judge it. all of those things as ms heinrich says, are elements of combat. but unfortunately, this one was somewhat dramatic and it should be investigated to its fullest along with some of the other strikes that israel's can just very quickly to follow up the dismissals of these two commanders. is that go far enough? do you think >> no, i don't think so but again, i don't know what the investigation shows. this this is more than just decision making. as i said, the different processes of a targeting so from intel collection to targeting to coordination, to lawyer saying something yes or no, then the commander saying the pull it, pull the trigger. there could have been disconnects in any one of those processes. i just don't know. and again, this is why i said i'll report like this an inquiry into a strike like this doesn't take a couple of days to conduct it takes as ms heinrich says, probably weeks to really determine the different elements that contributed to this. and i would suggest there's probably more that culpable in this particular attack. >> all right. general mark hertling, i wish we had more time, but we'll bring you back and can continue this conversation. general. thanks a lot for the time this morning. appreciate it i appreciate it. >> all right. our coverage of the fallout of the idf report on the world central kitchen strike continues. i'll be joined by democratic congressman walking castro of texas. he sits on the intelligence and foreign affairs committees to get his take on all of this. that's >> anderson cooper 360 tonight at eight on cnn lactate is 100% real melt just without the lactose delicious to just ask my old friend kevin. >> nothing like and join a coal one while watching the game. >> who's willing? 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