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[–] salarua@sopuli.xyz 186 points 7 months ago (8 children)

this was on purpose. the World Central Kitchen notified the IDF about their movement, and their vehicles were clearly marked. there is no way this was an accident. the IDF purposely killed aid workers delivering food to Gaza. if this isn't an indicator of their genocidal intentions, i don't know what is

[–] vind@lemmy.world 117 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It also wasn't just 1 car, they hit 3 separate WCK cars 1km apart from each other. Killing 7 international aid workers.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jesus took a shit. And people are buying Israel's story about it being an accident?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 13 points 7 months ago

The ones whose paycheck depends on believing it, yeah. Everyone that received support from AIPAC, the mainstream media, etc. They just need the thinnest excuse to parrot and somehow manage to live with themselves.

[–] lambda_notation@lemmy.ml 55 points 7 months ago

This was 100% about stopping the WCK food shipment from cyprus, https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/second-ship-loaded-with-gaza-aid-cyprus-says-charity-2024-03-14/

Stop the genocide now!

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[–] Sunforged@lemmy.ml 119 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (5 children)

This murder was so precise you can still read the marking on roof.

Edit: Hey look a coward let us know their presence by downvoting and not replying. Typical behavior from someone who supports killing civilian volunteers that are trying to minimize a genocide.

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[–] rayyy@lemmy.world 106 points 7 months ago (2 children)

The World Central Kitchen charity suspended delivery of food to starving Palestinians on Tuesday - this was the real goal of the attack.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 50 points 7 months ago

Yep. Israel will just investigate themselves and say whoopsies but the message couldn't have been more clear.

They're fucking evil.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 29 points 7 months ago

Not just them. Several aid and medical NGOs are leaving now.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 89 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Israel claims it was unintentional.

This is the fourth clearly marked and coordinated aid convoy that I can recall getting hit just from news stories.

The only thing unintentional about this was killing passport holders from western countries. This is a clear pattern of targeting aid convoys.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 27 points 7 months ago

I bet that was intentional as well. Their strategy is to starve Gaza, and after these killings all international aid agencies are pulling out. No food will be going in. It's the same with their targeting of reporters and their families: they don't want information to come out either.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Intentional or blatantly incompetent, it's quite clear that Israel is using the same playbook as Putin when he strikes civilians in Ukraine.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Israel is way worse than Putin: all it takes is looking at the numbers of civilian deaths in merelly the first month of the Israelli attack on Gaza compared to the whole of the Invasion of Ukraine.

Not excusing Putin by the way, just pointing out how much more extreme Israel is in the Fascist scales.

You get the impression that Putin has no care at all about human life, but he is not driven by extreme racism, whilst Israel most definitelly is driven by extreme racism and hence they're activelly trying to exterminate an entire etnic group whom they call "human animals" which is why we keep on seeing from them all varieties of barbarous acts, not just bombings with massive "building" (500lb) and "residential block" (2000lb) wipping bombs and targetting humanitarian vehicles like this but even the use white posphurous against civilians and snipping of childrem.

Next to them Putin is merely a Fascist whilst Israel are full-on Nazis.

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[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 19 points 7 months ago

was killing passport holders from western countries

I think that was intentional too, it's aimed at scaring the volunteers.

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[–] dumpsterlid@lemmy.world 70 points 7 months ago

Precision Murder

Let’s please call it what it is.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 54 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Anyone notice how Israel is apologetic for killing foreign aid workers but treats the deaths of non-combatant Palestinians with complete and utter indifference?

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are they even apologetic? They're just doing the classic cop thing of 'investigating' this incident for the next 2 years until we all forgot about this because they went on to do even worse shit.

Look at how they slow walked the admission that they (probably purposefully) murdered Shireen Abu Akleh (Also an American citizen BTW) by first accusing Palestinians, then settling on the wild story of multiple stray bullets hitting her in the back behind cover.

No consequences for that, and they've just kept escalating more and more since.

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[–] AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 22 points 7 months ago

Dehumanize the enemy so you don't feel bad about killing them. A classic genocide tactic.

[–] filoria@lemmy.ml 50 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Usually not the biggest fan of bellingcat because they tend to be overconfident (and often wrong as a result), but when you have a surplus of information like in this case there's little they can deny...

[–] Gay_Tomato@hexbear.net 31 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (7 children)

Bellingcat is funded by the NED (National Endowment for Democracy) so a CIA front admitting to the assassination is interesting.

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[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 49 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You think?

It was a small enough projectile that hit right directly on one small truck with enough destructive power to kill the occupants but not so much that it would completely blow up the entire vehicle.

Can't get any more precise than that ... unless it was a sniper that would just shoot one person.

[–] Eyck_of_denesle@lemmy.zip 14 points 7 months ago

It hit 3 aid trucks 1km apart from each other

[–] Alsephina@lemmy.ml 45 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The fact that this nazi state has nukes should terrify us all

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[–] RealFknNito@lemmy.world 45 points 7 months ago

Whaaaat? You're telling me that the IDF, the only ones in the region with airstrike capabilities are responsible for the three separate and highly coordinated attacks on clearly marked food aid vehicles for starving Palestinians? Surely it was Hamas, the group that would only serve to benefit from these vehicles making their way into Gaza to feed their starving people as well as themselves.

In other news, sky blue.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 42 points 7 months ago

What I'm reading from this is "they murdered these aid workers on purpose".

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Mindfury@hexbear.net 38 points 7 months ago (6 children)

everyone who has viewed this thread must denounce and condemn the terrorist state of "Israel" right fucking now

[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

War crimes and genocide. They are a terrorist state.

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[–] jonne@infosec.pub 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how many pundits will be asked if they condemn Israel for this.

[–] SSJ2Marx@hexbear.net 19 points 7 months ago

Death to Israel, from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.

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[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 37 points 7 months ago (4 children)

This is like if the US drone striked a Food Not Bombs kitchen what the fuck.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or like if the US drone struck a wedd... Hrm.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] caveman@lemmy.ml 35 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Anything with 2 legs in Palestina which is not Israeli is a Hamas terrorist /s

[–] idkmybffjoeysteel@hexbear.net 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

sometimes they kill other Israelis as well

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[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 34 points 7 months ago

That makes it sound like there was any doubt. No, even they admit it. They just swear it was three precision oopses up and down a 2 kilometer stretch, on a convoy that was phoned in and clearly marked.

[–] LemonLord@endlesstalk.org 33 points 7 months ago

It seems IDF has a serious drug induced psychosis. Hamas everywhere!!!!!

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If Israel can get away with USS Liberty, they can probably get away with about anything.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 23 points 7 months ago

They know they can get away with anything, and it's making all of us less safe. I don't get how policy makers in the West don't see that this is going to cause waves of lone wolf attacks in the next decades, especially if they allow Israel to go through with their plan to push Gazans into Egypt.

And that's just taking the purely selfish view, not the obviously morally correct view of not allowing genocides to happen and pushing for justice for all peoples, something nobody in charge in the West outside of Ireland seems to be interested in.

[–] drdiddlybadger@pawb.social 26 points 7 months ago

That's fucked up but not unexpected sadly.

[–] istanbullu@lemmy.ml 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Israel is an enemy of everything good.

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[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 25 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Zionists can murder whoever they like and Western governments will defend the killers.

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[–] D61@hexbear.net 20 points 7 months ago

Three missiles hit three vehicles directly that were spaced hundreds of meters apart. Nothing on purpose about that, nope, not at all.

[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Israel has been touting the WCK as an alternative to UNRWA. This actually hurts their image. If this is indeed a precision strike, I wonder if there are competing factions within the Israeli military, with diverging agendas...

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Nah, the IDF just wants to starve children to death. Killing aid workers is a bonus to them.

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[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

Yea the biggest hallmark of an idf strike I've seen from this conflict.

Isreal immediatly denying it was them.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 12 points 7 months ago (15 children)

Democrats provided the precision munitions that caused this atrocity.

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