As the ethnic cleansing continues.
On Tuesday, a series of Israeli drone strikes hit a road convoy attached to the only maritime aid corridor to Gaza, killing seven aid workers and forcing the operator to suspend all land-side and water-side operations.
According to Haaretz, Israeli drone operators executed three successive missile strikes on three separate aid vehicles. The convoy belonged to the aid NGO World Central Kitchen, and had just finished transporting a cargo of food from WCK’s receiving pier to a distribution warehouse.
The first and last airstrikes have been geolocated to positions about 2.4 kilometers apart, indicating multiple engagements, as confirmed by Israeli outlet Haaretz. One vehicle showed a perforation in the roof that appeared to pass through the World Central Kitchen logo.
Haaretz reports that after the first vehicle was destroyed, the drone operators pursued aid workers as they moved wounded into the second vehicle. Another missile destroyed the second vehicle, and survivors moved to the third vehicle. This was also targeted and destroyed, according to Haaretz.
All seven humanitarian personnel in the convoy were killed, including two Palestinians and five foreign citizens: one U.S.-Canadian dual national, three UK citizens and one citizen of Poland.
World Central Kitchen says that it notified the Israeli Defense Forces of the convoy’s route and timing in advance.
The IDF and the Israeli government have described the strikes as an accident, but
World Central Kitchen CEO Erin Gore alleged Tuesday that it was an attack.
“This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war,” Gore said in a press release Tuesday.