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Charity boss José Andrés 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. A US official has confirmed President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu will speak to each other tomorrow, according to reports by Reuters news agency.
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. It will be the first time the leaders have spoken since the Israeli air strike which killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers in Gaza on Monday.
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”. Biden has said he was "outraged and heartbroken" over the killings and accused Israel of not doing enough to protect aid workers.
“It was a Earlier, US State Department spokesman Matthew Miller said the US wants a "full, transparent and swift investigation" into the incident.
mistake that followed a misidentification but we’ve set up an
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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