{"id":177371,"date":"2026-08-21T18:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/177371\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T18:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T18:53:08","slug":"uk-canada-australia-slam-israel-ending-probe-into-wck-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/177371\/","title":{"rendered":"UK, Canada, Australia slam Israel ending probe into WCK killings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The incident in April 2024 sparked global outrage and renewed calls to ensure the safety of aid workers in Gaza [GETTY]<\/p>\n

Britain, Canada, and Australia on Friday condemned as “shameful” Israel’s decision to close an investigation into the deaths of seven aid workers<\/a> killed in Gaza in 2024.<\/p>\n

The World Central Kitchen<\/a> employees, three Britons, a dual US-Canadian national, a Pole, an Australian, and a Palestinian, died in a drone strike on their vehicle convoy after overseeing the unloading of a food aid shipment.<\/p>\n

Israel’s military called the incident a “tragic mistake”.<\/p>\n

“In the more than two years since, we have been pressing for Israel to swiftly and thoroughly consider the case and hold those responsible to account,” the three nations said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n

“The announcement by the [Israeli army] on 19 August 2026 that it would not pursue criminal investigations into this strike, without further explanation, is shameful,” it said.<\/p>\n

The incident in April 2024 sparked global outrage<\/a> and renewed calls to ensure the safety of aid workers in Gaza.<\/p>\n

“Announcing this decision on World Humanitarian Day, while the world honoured the courage and sacrifice of humanitarians, was particularly egregious,” the joint statement added.<\/p>\n

The Israeli military acknowledged a series of errors at various levels of command, but a preliminary investigation concluded on Wednesday that there was no “reasonable suspicion of criminal misconduct”.<\/p>\n

“Israel extends its condolences to the families of the seven World Central Kitchen aid workers…who tragically lost their lives under deeply regrettable circumstances,” Israel’s foreign ministry posted on X on Friday.<\/p>\n

It said the decision not to launch a criminal probe <\/a>“was made by Israel’s independent military prosecution authorities on the basis of strict professional and legal considerations”.<\/p>\n

“We remain committed to the safety of humanitarian personnel, compliance with international humanitarian law and preventing such tragedies from recurring,” it added.<\/p>\n

The US-based World Central Kitchen condemned the decision not to launch a criminal investigation, calling it “inconsistent with the full truth and deeply offensive”.<\/p>\n

It demanded an independent commission to investigate the airstrikes “because the IDF cannot credibly investigate its own conduct”.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Australia expressed outrage at the closure of the investigation and summoned Israel’s ambassador to the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The incident in April 2024 sparked global outrage and renewed calls to ensure the safety of aid workers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":177372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[367,17,14722,821,403,55823],"class_list":["post-177371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-australia","tag-canada","tag-gaza-war","tag-israel","tag-united-kingdom","tag-world-central-kitchen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}