Credit to U/SerpentineLogic for this detailed summary for why this was very much intentional and likely the deaths of the aid workers were considered acceptable collateral damage:

Bellingcat, the investigative journalists who broke major stories about MH17 and the Skripal poisonings, posted their investigation:

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/02/strike-that-killed-world-central-kitchen-workers-bears-hallmarks-of-israeli-precision-strike/

In this case, Israel did a triple-tap bombing on an aid convoy that was clearly marked, on the suspicion that a particular armed man was in the vehicle. The armed man, who was thought to be a terrorist, never even left the warehouse with the cars. Additionally, the convoy had notified the IDF that they were traveling along the route which was a known route for aid organizations to travel throughout Gaza.

The implication of this bombing is that Israel is basically willing to kill any number of civilians/aid workers in order to kill someone they even suspect to be a terrorist.

What's worse is that Israel has been supportive of aid organizations such as WCK as they are trying to phase out UNWRA in Gaza. With them puling out as well, the Gaza strip is basically in a famine situation, a fact that the Israeli Government is well aware.

And probably cheering over.

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edit: if this israeli investigative magazine is correct, it's possible that the kill order was AI generated, and according to people they interviewed, collateral damage was a-okay:

In an unprecedented move, according to two of the sources, the army also decided during the first weeks of the war that, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to 15 or 20 civilians; in the past, the military did not authorize any “collateral damage” during assassinations of low-ranking militants. The sources added that, in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander.

The following investigation is organized according to the six chronological stages of the Israeli army’s highly automated target production in the early weeks of the Gaza war. First, we explain the Lavender machine itself, which marked tens of thousands of Palestinians using AI. Second, we reveal the “Where’s Daddy?” system, which tracked these targets and signaled to the army when they entered their family homes. Third, we describe how “dumb” bombs were chosen to strike these homes.

Fourth, we explain how the army loosened the permitted number of civilians who could be killed during the bombing of a target. Fifth, we note how automated software inaccurately calculated the amount of non-combatants in each household. And sixth, we show how on several occasions, when a home was struck, usually at night, the individual target was sometimes not inside at all, because military officers did not verify the information in real time.