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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

Israel Faces Fallout After Accidentally Killing World Central Kitchen Workers in Gaza

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Relations between Israel and the U.S. continue to deteriorate following an IDF strike that killed seven relief workers in Gaza. This comes as President Biden faces mounting pressure from the left to more forcefully condemn Israel and restrict military aid. Meanwhile, Iran vows to retaliate after an apparent Israeli strike that killed top Iranian generals at a consular building in Syria. As the conflict spreads throughout the Middle East, Donald Trump calls on Netanyahu to move faster to eliminate Hamas, but stops short of criticizing Biden's approach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Right now. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

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Relations between Israel and the Biden administration continue to deteriorate after Israel

0:36.3

killed seven relief workers for World Central Kitchen in Gaza.

0:41.1

Israel has taken responsibility for the bombing, which it said was based on faulty

0:46.2

intelligence, but reaction in the US and the rest of the world has been increasing hostility

0:51.8

to the Jewish state. What happens now in US-Israel

0:57.2

relations? What does all of this mean for the Gaza war? Welcome. I'm Paul Ziegeego with the Wall Street Journal opinion pages and I'm here with my colleagues

1:06.4

Kim Strassal and Bill McGurn. So Israel has apologized for the bombing, and it says it's conducting an investigation, but let's listen to Jose Andres, the celebrity chef, who runs World Central Kitchen and his workers were killed, saying the strike was deliberate followed by

1:24.7

US spokesman for the State Department Matthew Miller on Israel's

1:29.0

accountability. We were targeted deliberately non-stop until everybody was dead in this convoy.

1:35.5

This happened over more than 1.5, 1.8 kilometers. So this was not used bad luck

1:42.1

situation where, oops, we dropped the bomb in the wrong place,

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or no, this was over 1.5, 1.8 kilometers

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with a very defined humanitarian convoy that had signs in the top, in the roof that cannot be the

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relevant army that has hundreds of drones above Gaza.

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The chief of staff for the Israeli defense forces has come out and said it was a misidentification.

2:05.2

So I took that to mean while they were targeting those cars, they did not believe that it was a

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