The killing of the seven aid workers, including three British security managers, has brought universal condemnation. But is it a tipping point in the support of Israel’s close allies, the US and Britain in the lead? UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres said the attack was “the inevitable result of the way in which the war has been conducted”.
James Kirby, John Chapman, James Henderson and colleagues from Australia, Poland and Palestine were killed as their convoy was moving away from delivering food aid to a warehouse along a designated route agreed with the Israel Defence Forces. Their cars were hit three times in three separate missile strikes — grounds for suspicion about motivation and targeting.
