The Israel Defense Forces have fired two senior officers involved in the drone attacks that struck three vehicles belonging to World Central Kitchen in Gaza, killing seven volunteers.
An internal Israeli military inquiry found that the drone team who killed them made an “operational misjudgment of the situation.”
It said the team had spotted a suspected Hamas gunman shooting from the top of one of the aid trucks they were escorting. The brigade officers who ordered the strikes, a colonel and a major, were dismissed, while senior commanders were also formally reprimanded.
“The strike on the aid vehicles is a grave mistake stemming from a serious failure due to a mistaken identification, errors in decision-making, and an attack contrary to the Standard Operating Procedures,” the military said in a statement on Friday.
The three aid workers’ vehicles had been emblazoned with large WCK…
