The Israel Defense Forces have fired two senior officers involved in the drone attacks that struck three vehicles belonging to World Central Kitchen in Gaza, killing seven volunteers.

An internal Israeli military inquiry found that the drone team who killed them made an "operational misjudgment of the situation."

It said the team had spotted a suspected Hamas gunman shooting from the top of one of the aid trucks they were escorting. The brigade officers who ordered the strikes, a colonel and a major, were dismissed, while senior commanders were also formally reprimanded.

"The strike on the aid vehicles is a grave mistake stemming from a serious failure due to a mistaken identification, errors in decision-making, and an attack contrary to the Standard Operating Procedures," the military said in a statement on Friday.

The three aid workers' vehicles had been emblazoned with large WCK logos. However, retired Israeli general Yoav Har-Even, who is leading the investigation, said the drone's camera could not see them because it was dark. "This was a key factor in the chain of events," he said.

As my colleague Joe Cunningham pointed out, this event has the potential to become a political turning point in Israeli operations in Gaza. 

When you look at POLITICO's front page, it's filled with WCK stories. Both the Washington Post and New York Times have it prominently featured on their sites as well. These are the outlets Democrats pay attention to, and with Israel admitting the attack happened and that it was a mistake, and with Biden sounding more forceful here than ever before, it is going to have a larger impact on how Washington views the war in Gaza.

It won't have much of an impact on the average American - those who don't pay attention to every minute shift in American policy and follow every political statement - but the politicians and bureaucrats who are in charge of the day-to-day operations of government will be much more affected. 

BACKGROUND: The World Central Kitchen Deaths in Gaza Will Have an Impact Like Nothing Else in Israel's Conflict

For the first time in my life, publicly adopting a pro-terrorist position is not only safe but respectable, and this event has the potential to have an outsize effect, such as Kim Phuc, the little girl hit by napalm.

Or the execution of a Viet Cong terrorist by the chief of Vietnam's national police, General Nguyen Ngoc Loan.

I don't think the sacrifice of a single colonel and major is going to be enough to tamp down the outrage.