and we begin with the breaking news the IDF releasing the results of its investigation into that deadly air strike that killed seven Aid workers from World Central Kitchen in Gaza the report calling it a grave mistake and detailing how the IDF quote mistakenly assumed Hamas gunmen were inside the world Central Kitchen Vehicles Israel also saying two high-ranking members of the IDF have now been dismissed from their posts and three others formally reprimanded World Central Kitchen responding to t
his report saying it's a start but not enough and demanding an independent investigation right away joining us now is NBC's Megan Fitzgerald NBC's Ali Rafa at the White House and Joel Rubin former deputy assistant Secretary of State in the Obama Administration let's start with Megan now U Megan just walk us through this report yeah so H the IDF starts by saying their forces first identified a gunman on one of the a trucks and then ID identified an additional gunman now after the vehicles left th
e warehouse where the Aid had been unloaded one of the commanders mistakenly assume that Hamas operatives were in the vehicles and that they didn't know in fact it was World Central Kitchen staff uh the IDF is calling it a grave mistake stemming from a serious failure they're also taking action we're told that they dismissed two high-ranking commanders on the ground and reprimanded others uh the IDF also says this shouldn't have happened and they'll be making sure that it doesn't happen again no
w just moments ago secretary blinkin said that the US will be fully assessing the IDS report and said they're not just looking to see what steps that are being taken uh but the results of those steps uh as you mentioned World Central Kitchen is responding this morning they released a statement saying it's clear from the preliminary investigation that the IDF has deployed deadly force without regard to its own protocols chain of commands and Rules of Engagement uh it on to say that they're demand
ing an independent investigation but look you know there's no doubt about it International condemnation just continues to grow with Israel's staunchest allies denouncing their actions uh and of course public opinion on the way Israel is carrying out this war on a uh just continues to drastically shift around the world and Ally the the Secretary of State also had called for an independent investigation before this report came out are we hearing any more response from the White House this morning
yeah Anna well in just the last hour on the tarmac in Brussels we heard the Secretary of State say that us officials are carefully reviewing this report this conclusion of the Israeli investigation into this strike he says that us officials will be discussing it with their Israeli counterparts as well as officials with humanitarian or organizations over the next coming days listen to more of his comments here it's very important that Israel is taking full responsibility for this incident it's al
so important that it appears to be taking steps to hold those responsible uh accountable uh even more important is making sure that steps are taken going forward to ensure that something like this can never happen again and on that independent investigation he called for it's still unclear what the next steps could be when they could possibly happen and who could potentially lead that uh we saw national uh John Kirby with the uh National Security Council on the Today's Show this morning in addit
ion to saying that the US is carefully reviewing this say that us officials won't make any judgment until that careful review is concluded so this is still a major outstanding question uh we have as we continue to monitor the de the developments moving forward Joel it sounds like there are still a lot of questions people want answer World Central Kitchen was very adamant they want an independent probe saying quote the IDF cannot credibly investigate its own failure in Gaza what do you think is t
his report enough well Anna you know I got to say that was really quick wasn't it that almost overnight Israel produces a report after President Biden leans in with prime minister Netanyahu and breeds him the riot act and I think this uh this also should raise some concerns about the protocol for how accountability is Advanced by by the IDF right now accountability for The Operators on the ground it's not not good enough because there are political signals that they're also getting and and it qu
ite frankly appears as if they weren't taking seriously the standard operating procedures for how to execute strikes and they were not paying attention to uh what the information they had on hand at that moment that was provided to them by their colleagues uh through the with the world Central kit up being directly engaged so some political accountability is needed as well and I think that message it's starting to get through but President Biden by pushing that he's making the right call Israel
remember they're now getting more isolated than they ever have been in this war and uh they are losing uh the United States day by day and we are their primary backer and supporter and if you lose the United States and frankly they have not gotten the deal yet for the hostages there's a real concern about their ability to have an effective end state that does take care of the Palestinian people at the same time hey everyone MSNBC has a new and improved app you'll get real time alerts and Analysi
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