Israeli military cites ‘misidentification’ in strikes killing aid workers

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Israel Defense Forces chief of staff Herzi Halevi issued a rare acknowledgment for a mistaken set of airstrikes that killed seven aid workers on Monday night.

Halevi said they did not intend to kill seven aid workers with the World Central Kitchen aid organization, calling it “a mistake that followed a misidentification, at night during a war in very complex conditions. It shouldn’t have happened.”

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