In April 2024, seven aid workers delivering food in Gaza were killed by Israeli drone strikes on clearly marked World Central Kitchen vehicles — a tragedy now revealed to stem not from battlefield confusion, but from a deliberate military doctrine. A Guardian investigation exposes the practice of haflala, a targeting policy permitting guilt by association, under which a brief encounter with armed guards was enough to condemn an entire humanitarian convoy. With no criminal charges filed and the officer responsible vowing he would act identically again, the killings illuminate how the erosion of
Guardian investigation: Israeli 'guilt by association' tactic led to killing of seven aid workers
Seven aid workers killed: three British nationals (James Kirby, James Henderson, John Chapman), one Australian (Zomi Frankcom), one Palestinian (Saifeddin Abutaha), one Polish (Damian Sobol), one dual Canadian-US citizen (Jacob Flickinger).