The Israel Defense Forces on Friday released a preliminary investigation into the facts and circumstances surrounding the destruction of a World Community Kitchen convoy and the deaths of seven aid workers. The IDF cashiered two officers and reprimanded several more, but even this will not be enough to tamp down the international outrage.
As always, in cases like this, the best way to understand events is visually. This is a map prepared by IDF investigators.
The WCK volunteers left an IDF jetty at 2200 on April 1. The staff were in three passenger vehicles, traveling with an unidentified number of trucks loaded with food. This is Implementation (the white dot) Point 1 on the map.
The departure time and route had been coordinated between WCK and the IDF, but it is unclear if that coordination filtered down to the people making the kill/no-kill decision.
It said a commander…
