“‘Unfortunately, in the past day, there was a tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed non-combatants in the Gaza strip,’ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a video address from the hospital where he had undergone hernia surgery earlier today. ‘We will do everything to prevent a recurrence.’ But numerous humanitarian groups said Israel has repeatedly killed aid workers—over 200 in Gaza in the past six months--despite supposed de-confliction processes, and rarely investigated or offered explanations. ‘Netanyahu now knows he has a political problem and he's already trying to spin this as a one-off accident or aberration. It is not,’ Refugees International President Jeremy Konyndyk, a former senior USAID official, wrote on Twitter. ‘It is just the latest in a long pattern of strikes and close calls on humanitarian movements and facilities.’”