Australian reviews World Central Kitchen deaths by Israel

An Australian government review into the Israeli military's killing of several aid workers from the US-based NGO World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza concluded that "serious failures," including "mistaken identification," led to their deaths.

The review also found that Israeli forces mistakenly launched missiles at the convoy, believing it had been hijacked by Hamas fighters. The armed personnel they observed were actually locally-contracted security guards.

Australian Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, who travelled to Israel to investigate the incident, stated, “Controls failed, leading to errors in decision-making and misidentification.”

“Based on the information available to me, it is my assessment that the [Israeli military] strike on the WCK aid workers was not knowingly or deliberately directed against the WCK,” he added