World Central Kitchen workers possibly killed by 'perfectly accurate' Israeli Spike missiles: report

The missiles that killed several aid workers that were part of a World Central Kitchen convoy this week, including an American, in the Gaza Strip were likely to have been "absolutely perfectly accurate" Spike missiles, according to British media reports.

Chris Lincoln-Jones, a former British army procurement officer, told The Times of London newspaper it was likely that three Spike missiles were fired in quick succession and smashed into the convoy vehicles on Monday.

"If you aim at the driver’s side, you will hit the driver full-on," Lincoln-Jones, who worked with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) while in the army, told the newspaper. "If you were across the street from the car, you’d be shaken up, and you might be hit by a few splinters, but you would survive."

The IDF’s Black Snake squadron was carrying a Hermes 450 drone equipped for a "clean and highly targeted" attack when it was believed to have pursued an aid convoy in Gaza, the report said.

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Lincoln-Jones spent five years studying IDF military hardware in Haifa and Tel Aviv, where he was involved in obtaining the watchkeeper drone for Britain, the news outlet reported. The drone was based on the Hermes 450, which is equipped with Spike "fire-and-forget" missiles made by Rafael Advanced Defence Systems, an Israeli arms firm.

"It’s the only missile that I know of in the Israeli army that, in my experience, would cause so little collateral damage. It would only kill the people in the car," said Lincoln-Jones.

The Hermes 450 would have had a clear image of the charity’s logo, he said, and that because the route taken by WCK had been approved by military authorities, Israel "probably