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Gaza food aid workers killed in Israeli air strike
Gaza food aid workers killed in Israeli air strike
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Yeah, but they saw a Hamas terrorist with the group earlier so they were completely justified to kill everyone /s
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Re: Gaza food aid workers killed in Israeli air strike
"Israel admitted responsibility on Tuesday.
“Unfortunately in the past day there was a tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed noncombatants in the Gaza Strip,” said Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahi in a video statement. He confirmed that Israel was investigating the incident.
“We are sorry,” said IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi late Tuesday, calling the incident a “mistake that followed a misidentification—at night during a war in very complex conditions.”
As well as being a tragic loss of civilian life, the incident is a major blow to the distribution of food in Gaza. Israel had been working more closely with WCK as a far better means of aid distribution than UNRWA. Now, WCK has paused its operations in the region.
It is also a PR disaster for Israel at a crucial juncture in its war with Hamas, which will soon enter its seventh month."
“Unfortunately in the past day there was a tragic event in which our forces unintentionally harmed noncombatants in the Gaza Strip,” said Israeli prime minister Bibi Netanyahi in a video statement. He confirmed that Israel was investigating the incident.
“We are sorry,” said IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi late Tuesday, calling the incident a “mistake that followed a misidentification—at night during a war in very complex conditions.”
As well as being a tragic loss of civilian life, the incident is a major blow to the distribution of food in Gaza. Israel had been working more closely with WCK as a far better means of aid distribution than UNRWA. Now, WCK has paused its operations in the region.
It is also a PR disaster for Israel at a crucial juncture in its war with Hamas, which will soon enter its seventh month."
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"To help make sense of the incident, I called up historian and former Israeli ambassador to Washington Michael Oren.
Israel, he said, is “facing a military challenge unlike any ever faced by a modern army” in Gaza. “That is not to excuse what happened, but help explain it,” he said. “And the people responsible for this will have to explain how it happened.”
Oren lamented a failure of Israel to control the narrative. “We’re not doing nearly enough to explain the reality of Gaza to the world and the challenges Israel faces,” he said, referring to the nightmarish task of trying to eliminate a hostile force that hides among a civilian population.
“Every bombing operation by the Israeli Air Force goes through a very lengthy approval process. Things can go wrong in intense combat, but it is anything but indiscriminate. Quite the opposite. It is intensely supervised, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t mistakes; we’re dealing with human beings.
“In a war mistakes happen,” continues Oren. To illustrate the point, he notes a friendly fire incident he witnessed 40 years ago. “In 1982 I watched a squadron of Israeli phantom jets, in broad daylight, bomb a column of Israeli paratroopers, killing twenty-five. In broad daylight. And all the vehicles were marked. And I think about not only the families of the twenty-five but I think about the pilots who did that. Because they have to live with that.”
Oren said there is “nothing in terms of Israel’s interests, in terms of our essential security interests, that is in any way remotely enhanced by this incident. On the contrary, it is greatly impaired by this. It increases the pressure on us to agree to a cease-fire. It increases pressure on the Biden administration to come down harder on Israel.”
He added: “We need to take responsibility for our mistakes, but we can’t take responsibility for the war. This is Hamas’s war.”'
https://www.thefp.com/p/iran-gaza-jk-ro ... dium=email
Israel, he said, is “facing a military challenge unlike any ever faced by a modern army” in Gaza. “That is not to excuse what happened, but help explain it,” he said. “And the people responsible for this will have to explain how it happened.”
Oren lamented a failure of Israel to control the narrative. “We’re not doing nearly enough to explain the reality of Gaza to the world and the challenges Israel faces,” he said, referring to the nightmarish task of trying to eliminate a hostile force that hides among a civilian population.
“Every bombing operation by the Israeli Air Force goes through a very lengthy approval process. Things can go wrong in intense combat, but it is anything but indiscriminate. Quite the opposite. It is intensely supervised, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t mistakes; we’re dealing with human beings.
“In a war mistakes happen,” continues Oren. To illustrate the point, he notes a friendly fire incident he witnessed 40 years ago. “In 1982 I watched a squadron of Israeli phantom jets, in broad daylight, bomb a column of Israeli paratroopers, killing twenty-five. In broad daylight. And all the vehicles were marked. And I think about not only the families of the twenty-five but I think about the pilots who did that. Because they have to live with that.”
Oren said there is “nothing in terms of Israel’s interests, in terms of our essential security interests, that is in any way remotely enhanced by this incident. On the contrary, it is greatly impaired by this. It increases the pressure on us to agree to a cease-fire. It increases pressure on the Biden administration to come down harder on Israel.”
He added: “We need to take responsibility for our mistakes, but we can’t take responsibility for the war. This is Hamas’s war.”'
https://www.thefp.com/p/iran-gaza-jk-ro ... dium=email
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providing aid and comfort to the enemy 
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a person who has voted for a candidate named Trump. People who say they are going to vote for a candidate named Trump might also be called Trump Voters
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Re: Gaza food aid workers killed in Israeli air strike
If you start a fight with someone else, and that someone else, kills a load of innocent bystanders, who is to blame?
You, or the person you started the fight with?
Israel is to blame for the deaths of the aid workers.
Those who pulled the trigger to kill innocents, plus those in government, should stand trial for war crimes at the International War Crimes Tribunal.
You, or the person you started the fight with?
Israel is to blame for the deaths of the aid workers.
Those who pulled the trigger to kill innocents, plus those in government, should stand trial for war crimes at the International War Crimes Tribunal.
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I knew you weren't a Jeopardy watcher
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This knobjob lives in a fantasy world
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