ELAC Co-Director Janina Dill was interviewed by the New York Times for an article titled, “Israel’s Account of Attack on Aid Convoy Raises Wider Legal Questions, Experts Say“. Dill gave expert comments on the attack against the World Central Kitchen aid truck in Gaza which killed seven aid workers.
“These are civilian vehicles, first and foremost,” she said, referring to the World Central Kitchen convoy. “They’re also vehicles involved in humanitarian assistance missions, which are specifically protected. The people on these trucks should be presumed to be individuals involved in humanitarian assistance missions, which means they are protected persons.”
When questioned about Israel’s military protocol, Dill stated, “If you have a humanitarian assistance vehicle that is clearly marked, that had communicated its route to the I.D.F. and that was taking a route the I.D.F. allegedly designated as safe, and you still misidentify that vehicle as a military objective, it is a very safe inference that your precautions in attack are insufficient, that the I.D.F.’s procedures for target verification are insufficient.” (I.D.F. refers to the Israeli military.)
Read the full article in the New York Times newsletter, The Interpreter.
