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

https://mins.news/en/item/46157

- The Guardian, 2026-09-05 00:00 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/sep/05/aid-workers-gaza-killed-in-israel-airstrike-investigation

> A Guardian investigation says seven World Central Kitchen aid workers killed in Gaza in April 2024 were designated as targets under a widely used Israeli military practice of guilt by association. The reservist colonel who ordered the strikes said the convoy became a target after briefly encountering armed guards wrongly assumed to be from Hamas.

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