Israeli Drone Kills Five Central Kitchen Aid Workers

[bendog]

Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported on Tuesday that “an Israeli drone fired three missiles one after the other” at the WCK aid convoy as it drove away from the non-profit’s distribution center, citing “defense sources familiar with the details” of the incident.

Defense sources told Haaretz the missiles were launched from a Hermes 450 drone “because of suspicion that a terrorist was traveling with the convoy,” on a food truck.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/03/middleeast/world-central-kitchen-strike-analysis-intl/index.html

The IDF better have a better story

 

[Mac-7]

Wayyyyyl the facts and allegations that we know now could lead to the IDF oking the attack, knowing the aid workers were in the convoy, but the IDF believed so as a terrorist. That's not an ok use of US ordinance, imo, and Biden better not think he can tell that tale to his base.

And HAMAS isn't using US ordinance, and Israel claims to be respectful of civilian lives, so there's no double standard. Don't bomb places where there are aid workers.

Don't bomb places where there are aid workers.

If thats all it takes to evade Israeli justice then aid workers should replace arab children as the human shields for Hamas

 

[ColonelAngus]

Awful. Bad eff up by Israel.

 

[toomuchtime_]

Awful. Bad eff up by Israel.

Yes it is, but it changes nothing. Israel still needs to wipe out Hamas in Gaza and maintain security over Gaza for the foreseeable future just as it does in Judea and Samaria in order to protect Israelis.

In 2002, when Sharon shocked the world, and many Israelis, by leading the IDF into area A in order to break up the terrorists and end the second intifada, a great many nations suspended relations with Israel, but he did end the second intifada and nearly all the states that had suspended relations reinstated them.

 

[expat500]

Yes it is, but it changes nothing. Israel still needs to wipe out Hamas in Gaza and maintain security over Gaza for the foreseeable future just as it does in Judea and Samaria in order to protect Israelis.

In 2002, when Sharon shocked the world, and many Israelis, by leading the IDF into area A in order to break up the terrorists and end the second intifada, a great many nations suspended relations with Israel, but he did end the second intifada and nearly all the states that had suspended relations reinstated them.

Not to forget that the US and the UK went after ISIS, following their barbaric atrocities.

 

[odanny]

Too little. too late:




President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that the United States would reassess its policy toward the war in Gaza if the Jewish state does not take immediate steps to address the disastrous humanitarian situation in the enclave and protect aid workers.

“In the coming hours and days, we will be looking for concrete, tangible steps that they’re taking,” said White House spokesman John Kirby.

The phone call between the two leaders came three days after seven workers from the José Andrés-run World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli strike on a clearly marked convoy, igniting outrage in the United States and abroad. The president held the call with Netanyahu specifically because of the deadly strike, Kirby said, adding that Biden was “shaken” by the attack.

In Thursday’s call, Biden “made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers,” according to a White House summary of the call. “He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”

It marked the first time Biden has indicated a willingness to reassess his unwavering support of Israel’s campaign in Gaza, as pressure grows among prominent Democrats to condition weapons sales to Israel as the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 33,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The president’s rhetoric has grown increasingly sharp regarding Israel’s handling of the crisis, but until now he had not directly warned Israel of consequences if it does not change course.

It also marked a rare moment in recent decades when the United States has suggested its support for Israel was anything but unconditional.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/04/biden-warns-netanyahu-situation-gaza-is-unacceptable/

 

[Lisa558]

Too little. too late:




President Biden told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday that the United States would reassess its policy toward the war in Gaza if the Jewish state does not take immediate steps to address the disastrous humanitarian situation in the enclave and protect aid workers.

“In the coming hours and days, we will be looking for concrete, tangible steps that they’re taking,” said White House spokesman John Kirby.

The phone call between the two leaders came three days after seven workers from the José Andrés-run World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli strike on a clearly marked convoy, igniting outrage in the United States and abroad. The president held the call with Netanyahu specifically because of the deadly strike, Kirby said, adding that Biden was “shaken” by the attack.

In Thursday’s call, Biden “made clear the need for Israel to announce and implement a series of specific, concrete, and measurable steps to address civilian harm, humanitarian suffering, and the safety of aid workers,” according to a White House summary of the call. “He made clear that U.S. policy with respect to Gaza will be determined by our assessment of Israel’s immediate action on these steps.”

It marked the first time Biden has indicated a willingness to reassess his unwavering support of Israel’s campaign in Gaza, as pressure grows among prominent Democrats to condition weapons sales to Israel as the death toll in Gaza has surpassed 33,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The president’s rhetoric has grown increasingly sharp regarding Israel’s handling of the crisis, but until now he had not directly warned Israel of consequences if it does not change course.

It also marked a rare moment in recent decades when the United States has suggested its support for Israel was anything but unconditional.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/04/04/biden-warns-netanyahu-situation-gaza-is-unacceptable/

Wow! Obama must have gotten to him after that shindig to get him to put the blame for this on Israel!

IOW, he is telling Israel to allow the Islamic terrorists to regroup so they can plan their next massacre of the Jews. Did he insist the Muslims release the hostages?

I guess it’s true that Obama will “stand with the Muslims” if things turn ugly.

Absolutely reprehensible.

 

[Lisa558]

Not to forget that the US and the UK went after ISIS, following their barbaric atrocities.

And did an ally of the US start blaming the US, insisting that they stop their attack and let ISIS regroup, allowing ISIS to strike again?

 

[expat500]

And did an ally of the US start blaming the US, insisting that they stop their attack and let ISIS regroup, allowing ISIS to strike again?

Remember this?

Jordan bombs Islamic State in revenge for pilot's murder

Fighter jets attack buildings before flying over pilot's village as king joins family for memorial

theweek.com

Only the Jew is held to an impossible standard from everyone else.

 

[Lisa558]

Remember this?

Jordan bombs Islamic State in revenge for pilot's murder

Fighter jets attack buildings before flying over pilot's village as king joins family for memorial

theweek.com

Only the Jew is held to an impossible standard from everyone else.

The double standards where Jews are concerned is the #1 tell of antisemitism.

Obama has apparently instructed Biden to withhold financial aid to Israel if it doesn’t cease-fire and let the Muslim savages regroup. Leftists always side with the wrong people - and particularly if Jews are in the equation.

 

[Lisa558]

When the U.S. mistakingly killed a family of 10, including 7 children, did Netanyahu reprehend Biden and America?!

 

[bendog]

If thats all it takes to evade Israeli justice then aid workers should replace arab children as the human shields for Hamas

you condone murdering people who are better humans than you. I'm not surprised

 

[Mac-7]

you condone murdering people who are better humans than you. I'm not surprised

I dont think it was murder

They knew the danger and decided to go in harms way willingly

 

[bendog]

I dont think it was murder

They knew the danger and decided to go in harms way willingly

The IDF knew they were there, and murdered them anyway. Even if the IDF thought a terrorist was on board, that's no legal justification of targeting innocent people with every right to be where they were. We have two tribes of SAVAGES yet we arm only one. I think that's because of mammon.

 

[Mac-7]

The IDF knew they were there, and murdered them anyway.

You dont know that

As I pointed out to someone else on this thread, friendly fire is a fact of life in every war

 

[odanny]

The IDF lies as much as some people on this thread.



Israel’s military said Friday that a deadly attack on a World Central Kitchen humanitarian convoy that killed seven of the organization’s members was a “serious violation” of its policies after the airstrikes prompted global outrage and a rare rebuke from the Biden administration.

The findings of the Israel Defense Forces’ own investigation, presented in a seven-paragraph statement, were unusual for the speed with which they were released: four days after an IDF drone repeatedly struck the three-car convoy on a coastal road in Gaza used as a humanitarian corridor.

The statement said the attack was the result of “errors” and was “contrary” to military procedures, adding that two officers would be dismissed and commanders reprimanded.

World Central Kitchen, in a statement Friday, said the findings were an “important step forward” but that the IDF “cannot credibly investigate its own failure in Gaza.”

“We demand the creation of an independent commission to investigate the killings of our WCK colleagues,” it said.

The attack on Monday highlighted the perils facing aid workers navigating the world’s worst humanitarian crisis during Israel’s punishing military offensive in Gaza: More than 180 aid workers have been killed, according to the United Nations.

The deaths of the WCK employees and volunteers — six of them foreign nationals, including one American — have prompted a reckoning regarding Israel’s military tactics in a way that strikes that have killed Palestinian civilians have not.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/05/israel-gaza-aid-wck-investigation/

 

[toomuchtime_]

The IDF knew they were there, and murdered them anyway. Even if the IDF thought a terrorist was on board, that's no legal justification of targeting innocent people with every right to be where they were. We have two tribes of SAVAGES yet we arm only one. I think that's because of mammon.

Because of a failure of communication within the IDF, the fire unit that was following the convoy did not know they were there and were unable to call WCK workers by phone or through WCK headquarters, so they just saw an anonymous convoy that based on their experience looked like a Hamas convoy.

 

[Foxfyre]

Palestinian news and Social Media report that an Israeli drone attack killed five World Central Kitchen workers in a three-car convoy traveling to Deir al-Balah in Central Gaza to feed starving people. Four were foreign Nationals from Poland, Australia, the UK, and Ireland. One was Palestinian, likely a translator for the group.

According to social media, the five workers were distributing food from four vessels owned by a nonprofit group in Cyprus in Northern Gaza and returning to Central Gaza after delivery. Aid groups had built a jetty, where the food was transported from the ships, loaded into cars, and driven to World Central Kitchen sites in the Gaza Strip.

Israeli drone kills five World Central Kitchen aid workers.

Palestinian news and Social Media report that an Israeli drone attack killed five World Central Kitchen workers in a three-car convoy traveling to Deir al-Balah in Central Gaza to feed starving people. Four were foreign Nationals from Poland,...

www.dailykos.com

FUCK ISRAEL

It was indeed unfortunate but it was not murder. Tragic accidents do happen in war--in ALL wars--and in this case the accident involved negligence on the part of the officers who ordered the strike. Israel command acted swiftly to do what they could to remedy the situation and those responsible were punished.

MSN

 

[odanny]

Statement from the WCK.


The IDF has acknowledged its responsibility and its fatal errors in the deadly attack on our convoy in Gaza. It is also taking disciplinary action against those in command and committed to other reforms. These are important steps forward.

However it is also clear from their preliminary investigation that the IDF has deployed deadly force without regard to its own protocols, chain of command and rules of engagement. The IDF has acknowledged that our teams followed all proper communications procedures. The IDF’s own video fails to show any cause to fire on our personnel convoy, which carried no weapons and posed no threat.

Without systemic change, there will be more military failures, more apologies and more grieving families.

The root cause of the unjustified rocket fire on our convoy is the severe lack of food in Gaza. Israel needs to dramatically increase the volume of food and medicine traveling by land if it is serious about supporting humanitarian aid.

Food is a universal human right. WCK is proud to have fed families across Israel after October 7, and we continue to demand the release of all hostages. At the same time, we believe Palestinian families have the same universal right to food, water and medicine. We know Israelis, deep down, share the same values.

We demand the creation of an independent commission to investigate the killings of our WCK colleagues. The IDF cannot credibly investigate its own failure in Gaza.

“It’s not enough to simply try to avoid further humanitarian deaths, which have now approached close to 200,” said WCK founder José Andrés. “All civilians need to be protected, and all innocent people in Gaza need to be fed and safe. And all hostages must be released.”

“Their apologies for the outrageous killing of our colleagues represent cold comfort,” said WCK CEO Erin Gore. “It’s cold comfort for the victims’ families and WCK’s global family.”Israel needs to take concrete steps to assure the safety of humanitarian aid workers. Our operations remain suspended.

World Central Kitchen | WCK’s statement about the IDF preliminary investigation

wck.org

 

[Tommy Tainant]

Cover ip complete. Two people moved to other jobs and one given a jolly good telling off.
Israeli justice in action.