According to a CNN investigation of photos and videos from the aftermath, the lethal Israeli attack that killed seven aid workers from the nonprofit World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza on Monday appears to have involved several pinpoint attacks.
In a statement released on Tuesday, WCK said that when the strike happened, its team was leaving a warehouse in the central Gazan town of Deir al-Balah with over 100 tons of food supplies, and was moving through a “deconflicted zone” in two armored cars and one unarmored car. The nonprofit claimed to have worked with the Israeli military to arrange the convoy’s movements.
All three of the destroyed cars—at least one of which had a prominent WCK insignia on its roof by CNN to two locations onthe Al Rashid beach road in the strip, and a third spot on a neighboring off-road expanse of open land. The distance between the first and third locations, which is around 2.4 kilometers, suggests that the three cars were struck by different bullets.
The first car, geolocated on Al Rashid Street, just outside of Deir al Balah, looked to have sustained the least amount of damage. The second automobile was around 800 meters down the same road; it was obviously damaged by fire, with a hole in its WCK-marked roof. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) states that Israeli officials have “designated for the passage of humanitarian aid” on Al Rashid Street.
The third vehicle, identified by CNN as having “soft skin” or being unarmored,1.6 kilometers from the second automobile, in an open field, was the vehicle mentioned in WCK’s statement that looked to be the most severely damaged. The three automobiles are located about 12 kilometers from the new dock that WCK built so that it could ship assistance supplies to Gaza.
