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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Matan Cohen in Jerusalem, and Julian Borger

‘Guilt by association’: why seven international aid workers were killed in Israeli airstrike

James Henderson, James Kirby and John Chapman were killed in the April 2024 strike with Damian Sobol, Lalzawmi Frankcom, Jacob Flickinger and Saifeddin Abutaha.
Top row, from left: Britons James Henderson, James Kirby and John Chapman were killed in the April 2024 Israeli strike on their aid convoy. The other victims were, bottom row, from left: Damian Sobol, Lalzawmi Frankcom, Jacob Flickinger and Saifeddin Abutaha. Composite: World Central Kitchen/Getty Images

Seven aid workers killed in an airstrike in Gaza were marked as targets under an Israeli military practice of establishing guilt by association, a Guardian investigation shows.

A top Israeli military prosecutor announced last month that he would not pursue criminal proceedings for the April 2024 incident in which drones fired missiles at three clearly marked World Central Kitchen (WCK) cars soon after they had escorted a food aid delivery to Gaza. Three British humanitarian workers along with an Australian, a Palestinian, a Pole and a dual US-Canadian national were killed.

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