Some of Australia's top international law experts want Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada to consider an MH17-style joint criminal investigation into the fatal Israeli drone strike that killed aid worker Zomi Frankcom and her World Central Kitchen colleagues in Gaza in 2024.
Who Gets Hit First
Zomi Frankcom and her World Central Kitchen colleagues were killed in Gaza in 2024 by a fatal Israeli drone strike. That’s the hard fact at the center of this call for a probe. The people doing aid work ended up dead, while the machinery of power that made the strike possible keeps its distance and lets lawyers and governments sort through the wreckage after the fact.
The report said some of Australia's top international law experts raised the issue in a national news live blog on Wednesday, August 26. They want Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada to consider launching a joint criminal investigation into the killing. The model they pointed to was MH17. Same old pattern: bodies on the ground, institutions debating process.
Who Holds the Levers
The experts are not calling for a lone national inquiry. They want three states — Australia, the United Kingdom and Canada — to consider acting together. That detail matters. The power to investigate, charge, and frame the story sits with governments and their legal apparatus, not with the dead, not with the aid workers, and not with the people in Gaza who lived under the strike.
The base report gives no details about any response from those governments. It only says the experts want them to consider a joint criminal investigation. That’s the entire public shape of accountability here: a request for states to examine a killing carried out by a drone strike, after the fact, through the channels of law.
The article also places the call in a national news live blog on Wednesday, August 26, alongside other major stories. That’s how these deaths get handled in the media machine. One more item in the feed. One more tragedy filed next to celebrity tributes and the daily churn, while the people who died are reduced to a headline and a legal question.
What Accountability Looks Like From Above
The experts specifically want an MH17-style joint criminal investigation. That phrase carries its own cold bureaucracy. It means the answer to a fatal strike is not immediate justice, not repair, not any kind of mutual aid for the people left behind. It means states weighing whether to build a criminal case through their own institutions, using their own rules, against a killing that happened in Gaza in 2024.
The base article doesn’t say whether any investigation has started. It doesn’t say whether any government has agreed. It doesn’t say what the World Central Kitchen colleagues’ families have been told. It only records that the experts argued the three countries should consider the move. That’s where the official story sits: in consideration, in procedure, in the slow language of power deciding whether a death deserves paperwork.
The second anniversary of the fatal Israeli drone strike falls in 2026, and the call for a probe lands right on that mark. Two years on, the facts remain brutally simple. Zomi Frankcom is dead. Her colleagues are dead. The strike happened in Gaza. And now some of the region’s legal experts are asking three governments to decide whether to investigate it together.
That’s what passes for accountability when power kills from a distance. The people at the bottom absorb the blast. The people at the top debate jurisdiction.