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And one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member who had participated in Oct 7th.. as well as an actual bonafide WCK worker. Admittedly b
by vorpalhex 1y ago
And one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member who had participated in Oct 7th.. as well as an actual bonafide WCK worker.
Admittedly blowing up the entire van was probably wrong in retrospect.
- JumpCrisscross 1y ago> one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member who had participated in Oct 7th Source?
- cypherpunks01 1y agoOh wait, except that's not true. Retired Maj Gen Yoav Har-Even described how the IDF's drone operators mistook an aid worker carrying a bag for a gunman, and then targeted one of the World Central Kitchen vehicles with a missile. The IDF then described how two people escaped that vehicle and got into a second car, which was hit by another missile from a drone. The military confirmed that there were survivors from the second explosion, who managed to get into the third vehicle - which was then also hit by a missile. By the end, all the aid workers were dead. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68742572 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68742572 Agreed that bombing the 1st vehicle of aid workers was a mistake. Then bombing the 2nd vehicle was a mistake, and the 3rd vehicle bombing was also a mistake.
- vorpalhex 1y agohttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/israel-claims-targets-terrorist-in-world-central-kitchen-strike/104669290 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-01/israel-claims-targets... In Dec 1 in 8 WCK workers were fired for Hamas ties https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/12/11/aid-group-fires-dozens-of-gazan-employees-identified-as-terrorist-operatives/ https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2024/12/11/aid-group-fires-doze... Even your link calls out that one of the vehicles that split from the convoy was carrying armed gunmen.
- cypherpunks01 1y agoSorry but there's zero point in providing justification for this. Even the IDF said "it was a mistake that followed a misidentification" and that it "it shouldn’t have happened" [1]. Everyone's in agreement on this point. [1] https://x.com/IDF/status/1775290147426152931 https://x.com/IDF/status/1775290147426152931
- ryoshoe 1y ago> And one of those WCK workers was in fact a rifle wielding Hamas member As far as I know this was the result of the IDF's own investigation so there's some conflict of interest
- calmbonsai 1y agoThat turned out not to be true. Here's the latest Wikipedia entry on the event: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_convoy_attack https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Central_Kitchen_aid_conv...
- pram 1y agoIt was “probably wrong” to kill 7 people in 3 different vehicles? How about when they did it again later in the year, and killed another 5 WCK workers? Crazy how it just kept happening.