'Serious failures' by Israeli forces caused aid worker killings: Australian inquiry

The Israeli military's attack on an aid convoy in April that killed seven workers in Gaza resulted from “serious military failures”, an Australian inquiry revealed on Friday.

On 1 April, Israeli strikes on three World Central Kitchen vehicles that had delivered 100 tonnes of food aid to a Deir al-Balah warehouse killed aid workers from Australia, Canada, Poland, the UK, the US and Palestine.

The government review examining Israel’s response to the fatal strikes attributed the attack to a failure by Israeli forces to follow procedures, citing “mistaken identification and decision-making errors, likely compounded by a level of confirmation bias”.

Former Australian Defence Force chief Mark Binskin, appointed special adviser on the matter, said he did not believe Israeli forces "knowingly or deliberately directed against the WCK”.