Israeli army chief says aid workers deaths a grave mistake; Biden expresses outrage [Video]

GAZA – Israel’s defence chief said on April 3 that a strike in which seven aid workers in Gaza were killed was a “grave mistake”, after the deaths prompted a chorus of international outrage.

“This incident was a grave mistake,” Israel Defence Forces (IDF) chief Herzi Halevi said in a video message after the strike that hit a World Central Kitchen (WCK) convoy delivering aid on April 1.

“It shouldn’t have happened,” he said, as he blamed the strike on a night-time “misidentification”.

“We are sorry for the unintentional harm to the members of WCK.”

The bodies of the six international workers killed in the strike were expected to be transported out of Gaza through the Rafah crossing with Egypt on April 3.

Agence France-Presse TV footage from the scene showed the punctured roof of a vehicle emblazoned with WCK’s logo alongside the mangled wreck of other vehicles.

Since the October start of the war, the United States-based charity had been involved in feeding …