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including: an aid coordination plan not being shared widely with its operational forces. the report found the suspicion that an armed man was in one of the vehicles didn tjustify the attack. and that the attack shouldn t have continued after the first vehicle in the convoy was struck. two idf officers have been sacked, and others disciplined. the incident has led to worldwide condemnation. here the foreign secretary lord cameron said israel must follow up this report with a wholly independent review . in response to the criticism, israel said it will open up more aid routes. tonight we look at the humanitarian situation in gaza, and we ll have analysis from our international editorjeremy bowen injerusalem. first, here s lucy williamson. israel says hamas gunmen often pose as aid workers. not this time. its army today said the killing of seven aid workers in air strikes this week was a grave mistake. due to mistaken identification, errors in decision making, and a serio ....
on the three vehicles were carried out in serious violation of standard operation procedure and that the brigade chief the convoy belonging to the charity world central kitchen was struck in central gaza late on monday night. survivors running between the remaining vehicles before being hit again and then again. the army said its forces had mistaken the bag one passenger was carrying for a gun after spotting gunmen at the warehouse earlier. it was a visual confirmation of a gunman, first of all, on one of the trucks that then conducted shooting from one of the trucks. and when they indeed reached the hangars, there were more gunmen identified on the location. and it led basically to the entire miscalculation, misidentification and and the failure of what should have happened. israel s army said the aid was picked up by lorry at ten p:m.. the armed figure was then spotted firing from one of the trucks before the convoy moved on with other vehicles to an inland warehouse wher ....
hello, welcome to the programme. the israeli military has said air strikes on a convoy in gaza, which left seven aid workers dead, happened after a series of grave mistakes . israel has sacked two senior officers and has given its first detailed account about how and why it carried out the attack. here are the key points. the idf says the strike should not have happened and expressed its deep sorrow for the incident. it says those who approved the strike were convinced they were targeting hamas operatives. the strikes on the three vehicles were carried out in serious violation of standard operation procedure and the brigade chief of staff, an officer with the rank of colonel in reserve, and the brigade fire support commander with the rank of major have been dismissed from their positions. the people who died were working for the charity, world central kitchen, which has called for an independent inquiry. in response to the deaths, joe biden says israel is doing what ....
hello. the foreign secretary, lord cameron, says he s carefully reviewing the initial findings of the israeli military investigation into how its forces killed seven aid workers in gaza on monday. three of the dead were british nationals. the israeli defence force inquiry found there d been a catalogue of errors leading up to the air strikes on the aid convoy, with the idf saying the deaths were a grave mistake and a serious violation of procedure. several senior officers have now been dismissed. the people who died were working for the charity world central kitchen, which has called for an independent inquiry, and there s been worldwide condemnation of the killings. israel has now opened up more aid routes, in response to the criticism. in a moment, we ll take look at the dire humanitarian situation in gaza, where more than 33,000 people have died in the last six months, according to the hamas controlled health ministry. but first, here s lucy williamson injerusalem. ....