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Charity boss Jose Andres says Israel targeted staff 'systematically, car by car' - BBC News Charity boss José Andrés says Israel targeted staff 'systematically, car by car' - BBC News
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We've reported that World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder José Andrés says he thinks Israel deliberately targeted his aid workers.
More comments now from World Central Kitchen (WCK) founder Jose Andres, who earlier accused Israel of deliberately targeting the seven aid workers in Gaza, in an interview with Reuters. Now, a spokesperson for Cogat - the Israeli defence ministry body in charge of co-ordinating aid deliveries to Gaza and liaising between the aid agencies and the Israeli military - insists there wasn’t a problem with the information they passed on to the IDF about the convoy’s movements.
He's now spoken to Israeli broadcaster Channel 12 news, saying: “The airstrikes on our convoy, I don’t think were an unfortunate mistake. It was really a direct attack on clearly marked vehicles whose movements were known by everybody at the IDF." Speaking to BBC's Newshour programme, Cogat spokesman Shimon Freedman says the strike on the aid workers was a "grave mistake" and an “absolute tragedy”.
He stresses that the WCK convoy was in a deconflicted zone controlled by the Israeli forces when it was attacked. “It was a
Andres says no one is questioning Israel's right to defend itself, but "defending your people is not killing everybody else around". mistake that followed a misidentification but we’ve set up an
Israel said the strike was "unintended" and that WCK workers were not deliberately targeted. independent professional body to look into the incident and investigate."
He adds that he does not think there was a systemic problem because the IDF co-ordinates with aid agencies on the ground every day as a matter of course.
"There are dozens of co-ordinations a day and hundreds of thousands of
co-ordinations that have happened since the beginning of the war."
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