EVIDENCE WITHHELD IN ISRAELI KILLINGS OF AID WORKERS

Britain, Israel and Australia are refusing to release evidence of the killing of an Australian aid worker and six colleagues in Gaza in April.

by Phil Miller, John McEvoy and Peter Cronau | 26 Aug, 2024 | Gaza, Intelligence, Israel

Well what a surprise – Israel hides the truth of its Genocidal actions and it seems that our own Government is complicit – Mark

This special report by Declassified UK’s Phil Miller and John McEvoy in Britain, and Declassified Australia’s Peter Cronau.

Vital evidence of the killings of seven international aid workers in Gaza in April is being withheld by Britain and Israel who are each refusing to release publicly electronic recordings made that fateful day.

Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom was killed in an Israeli drone attack, along with six colleagues delivering aid for World Central Kitchen (WCK) in Gaza, on 1 April.

No open inquiry has been held, and no judicial punishment has been handed out to the perpetrators by Israeli authorities, with only two Israeli Defence Force members being dismissed and three reprimanded.

Israel holds detailed audio from the drone footage of the attacks, but has not shown it to nor handed it over to Australian authorities.

The Australian government’s ‘special adviser’, Air Chief Marshal Mark Binskin, after travelling to Israel, concluded in his report to the Australian government on 2 August, that “the IDF strike on the WCK aid workers was not knowingly or deliberately directed against the WCK”.

However, Binskin noted without comment that the audio of the drone footage had been withheld by Israel from his offical Australian mission:

“All requests were supported, including viewing the 90-minute un-edited Uncrewed Aerial Vehicle (UAV) footage (without audio) of the WCK convoy and subsequent strikes.” [Ed: Emphasis added]

The head of World Central Kitchen José Andrés earlier called for release of the audio. “We need to be saying, ‘what was the conversations, the radio conversations between the different officers and soldiers in charge of saying that those cars were a target because they were an imminent threat?’”