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Australia finds ‘serious failures’ in Israeli attack on food aid convoy

Seven people, including an Australian, were killed when the Israeli military struck three World Central Kitchen vehicles in Gaza.

Australia has found an Israeli attack on a Gaza aid convoy in April was the result of “serious failures” but was not deliberate.

Six foreign aid workers and their Palestinian driver were killed in the air attack on the World Central Kitchen convoy. The dead included Australian Zomi Frankcom, as well as three Britons, a North American and a Pole.

A declassified report by former Australian air force chief Mark Binskin, which was released on Friday, found that the three vehicles in the WCK convoy were “struck in relatively quick succession” after Israeli forces tagged it as suspicious because some of the group’s security team were armed and they mistakenly believed the convoy was being hijacked by Hamas fighters.

The strike was the result of a “significant breakdown in situational awareness,” said Binskin, who travelled to Israel for his investigation.

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