The New Yorker:

After six months of war, has Israel’s killing of World Central Kitchen aid workers compelled the President to do more to save lives in Gaza?

By Evan Osnos

The matter of moral sympathy—who attracts it, who gives it, what action it inspires—can be cruelly fickle. Six months ago, Hamas-led militants killed some twelve hundred people in Israel and took more than two hundred hostages, igniting a war in Gaza, in which Israel has killed some thirty-two thousand people. But it was Israel’s fatal attack on seven aid workers in Gaza, who were part of José Andrés’s World Central Kitchen—all but one of them non-Palestinians, including a dual U.S.-Canadian citizen—that compelled the Biden Administration to issue its strongest rebuke.

W.C.K. had built a makeshift jetty to bring food ashore in Gaza, where hundreds of thousands face the prospect of famine, because Israel had resisted calls to allow more aid in by land. The seven W.C.K. workers were travelling in a convoy of three cars, at least one of which was clearly marked with the organization’s logo, when they were hit by drone-fired missiles, even though the group had coördinated its mission with the Israel Defense Forces. The Israeli military called the strikes a “tragedy,” and blamed them on a drone operator who mistook a bag for a gun, and on officers who did not review details of the convoy’s plans. Two officers were dismissed, and others were reprimanded. But W.C.K. was unsatisfied; in a statement, it called for an “independent” investigation and for “systemic change” toward protecting the provision of humanitarian aid.

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