Aral BalkanWorld Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.
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Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit
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This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war. This is unforgivable
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The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, UK, US, Canada, and Palestine.
Gary b_spectabilis@aral absolutely devastating. IDF murders. Enough!
Felichs@aral Dude, it's not an attack against humanitarian organisations...it's an attack against humanity.
Peter Butler@aral Terribly sad and depressing :(
adritheonly@aral
Isn't that against the Geneva Convention? This is despicable!
Isn't that against the Geneva Convention? This is despicable!
@adritheonly Quick! Someone tell the US! (Oh, right, sorry, I forgot this genocide is a team effort.)
@aral
Sigh... I know, but the more people who shout the truth, the more attention this gets. BTW I'm South African and don't believe in the US bandage.
Sigh... I know, but the more people who shout the truth, the more attention this gets. BTW I'm South African and don't believe in the US bandage.
@adritheonly Indeed. I’m just venting my general frustration.
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@aral
I can only imagine how you must feel at this moment.
I can only imagine how you must feel at this moment.
@adritheonly It’s nothing compared to how the Palestinian people must feel.
fincheSorry again for me interfering here.
Maybe we should tell it an accident rather than an attack. For an attack is a willful action to harm and destroy something.
To my knowledge this wasn't the case here do we are better up to wait on the report of IDF which is looking in the case.
@finche Go away. You disgust me.
Earthworm 🐌In any case it is an attack to throw bombs on territories with a large civilian population (a population that, btw, has nowhere to go). Even if it was an "accident", it was a decision to throw the bomb near the humanitarian kitchen.
And I have a question:
People were really quick in believing the horrors of 7 Oct.
Now, 5 months later, we know that some things were exaggerated (number of killed civilians) or directly invented for propagandistic purposes (e.g. the beheaded babies story).
Fake news can happen in a "dynamic situation", but be always aware about who benefits of which position.
And also: if news from Gaza can't be contrasted easily, then maybe it is because Israel does not allow independent Journalists to enter the area to verify the claims on the ground.
Again something that happens because somebody decided it.
You are right, earthworm.
Yes, I agree, someone let the button to be pressed. Someone did press it. Therefore there have to be an investigation and to my knowledge, the IL authorities will investigate. They are at risk and watched closely by the world.
I do know of the stories told by both sides to rectify their respective position in that war.
Clearly being on ILs side, but this isn't equal to do wrong to the other side.
CU
Curt ThomasHi,
I think it's common sense to hear the other side, too. There is no shortpave to justice.
This common sense makes the difference in the behaviour of a constititional democracy and an autocracy.
Rajnhildo Ursidino 
@finche There is no despite, and the IDF’s investigation will be entirely pro-forma. This incident occurred BECAUSE WCK coordinated its movements with the aggressor (IDF).
@reinhilde Oh,
Reinhilde, you are hitting hard, aren't you?
I am not convinced of that, maybe we will wait until there were all investigations be made.
To my knowledge IL confessed the attack stating it wasn't for purpose.
I tend to believe them up to now. Until we see eventually they are lying at us.
At the moment that doesn't make sense, because many will feast on that mistake.
@finche I’m coming out early with this for one simple reason, summed up in the seven letter Latin phrase, “cui bono”. Whose agenda benefits from these attacks? People who are eliminationist towards Palestinians across historic Palestine. IDF and Israel under Likud and Otzma Yehudit have shown again and again that they cannot tolerate the very existence of one Palestinian person any longer than it takes to get them to shut up and fuck off. They’re willing to enact man-made famine in Gaza to this end.
Whether deliberate or accidental, these atrocities are unequivocally condoned by the Israeli state machinery as it stands.
@reinhilde So you do think that IL will profit from those attack?
I doubt that. IL dearly need support from the US and from the European allies. They would stop at length if Israel would breach Geneva Convention and so on. I really think they had been warned last week Us letting pass the UN resolution.
I really can't see no good in a murder of humanitarian workers.
I think all decent people would want that that has never happened.
@finche Profit? No. I don’t think they’ll profit. But what they want, they get partly by doing this.
The US and European allies have not shown that they will stop if Israel breaches international law (it has, repeatedly)
@reinhilde Do you think this incident will be a stepstone in reaching their goals?
Let's see: firstly they want to destroy hamas so there is no future massacre like 10/7. Then they want all hostages back - dead or alive.
How would the murder fit in?
I am sure that the US and Europe will press IL to better care for the civilians and will try to hinder IL from raiding Rafah. This can't be desirable for the present government, can it?
@finche Your statement of their goals is not correct.
Their goal is the destruction of the Palestinian people in Gaza, and the resettlement of Gaza with Israeli settlers, a fair few of whom are people making aliyah from the US (I’m not here to judge Israel’s nationality law at this time, only their actions in Gaza).
They have stated this several times, calling them human animals, etc.
Hamas doesn’t even factor.
@reinhilde Sorry, Reinhilde, but this seems to me very emotional and beyond reality.
Yes, there are rightists claiming gaza for (re-)settlement. And there are extremists making havoc in the West Bank.
They are morons, they are loud, but they are little in numbers.
I can't see that there will be a resettlement and an ethnic cleaning of the strip.
To my knowledge they want to block Gaza from IL.
Let's who was right. In autumn we know.
G'night.
@finche Similar such analysis: https://kolektiva.social/@HeavenlyPossum/112203625565872085
HeavenlyPossum (@[email protected])
So the World Central Kitchen convoy a) cleared its route with the IDF beforehand, b) traveled on an approved route, and c) departed at an approved time, so d) the IDF knew exactly who it was killing when it struck the convoy three (3) times. It was so obviously deliberate, and so deliberately cruel—not just to murder these people, but to terrorize other aid workers into abandoning the Palestinians to be starved to death. To prove the IDF’s impunity and reach, and to compel the IDF’s defenders into apologizing for yet another unforgivable atrocity.
Jason Walter 🇵🇸@aral Maybe now, because white people were killed, some will start paying attention!
Mohab
Mike Waghorne@aral Will Australia, the US or the UK condemn this act?
Martha@aral
The US and any other COUNTRIES still doing it MUST stop all military aid to murdering Zionist Israel IMMEDIATELY!
The US and any other COUNTRIES still doing it MUST stop all military aid to murdering Zionist Israel IMMEDIATELY!
Truth Or Consequences ✅ 🇺🇦@aral
Totally unacceptable! Israel has stepped over the line so many times. The world opinion of them is very, very low.
Totally unacceptable! Israel has stepped over the line so many times. The world opinion of them is very, very low.
Tushar Chauhan@aral Wonder if the WCK also operates in Yemen.
Mogleg@aral
And they achieved their goal: https://guernseypress.com/news/world-news/2024/04/02/ships-to-leave-gaza-with-240-tons-of-undelivered-aid-cyprus-says/
And they achieved their goal: https://guernseypress.com/news/world-news/2024/04/02/ships-to-leave-gaza-with-240-tons-of-undelivered-aid-cyprus-says/
Matthew Toohey@aral Condolences to you on the loss of your colleagues and to their families and friends.
This is a war crime.
#Gaza #IDF #WarCrimes
This is a war crime.
#Gaza #IDF #WarCrimes
@tooheymatthew Hey Matthew, I don’t work there but yes, it is a war crime.
@aral Oh, my mistake.
@tooheymatthew No worries :)
hko 😷🪁@aral linking to an archived version of a related Hebrew-language article in Haaretz, for reference:
https://archive.ph/WQwru#selection-1033.0-1039.354
This article seems to quote official sources saying that the WCK group was the target of three successive drone strikes, over the course of minutes.
@hko “According to security sources, after the first missile hit, the passengers tried to switch to another vehicle and were attacked a second and third time.”
Bloody hell.
Antanicus
Julianoë
a hopeful socialist@aral they're so out of control. The west's refusal to reign in Israel kills everyone from anywhere if they oppose their regime
Tormod Halvorsen> "Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit"
Or was it BECAUSE of coordinating with the IDF? Giving them the exact time and location of where to hit? I'm leaning toward a strong "probably" on this...
javiThis is not even went first time Israel bombs clearly labeled vehicles from humanitarian orgs: early this year they bombed a convoy of doctors without borders cars that were evacuating people to the safe zone defined by the IDF. And then a tank fired at the DWB offices
RockyC@aral One only needs to look at the territory maps from 1967 and today to see that Israel has become the very monster it sought to destroy.
Israel can fuck right off. Shame on my country for sending them so much aid over the decades.
ferricoxide@aral
Bibi (and pals) really need a date with the ICC.
Bibi (and pals) really need a date with the ICC.
Shark Attak@aral
Israel: Okay THIS TIME was an accident, happy now?
Israel: Okay THIS TIME was an accident, happy now?
KenBallweg@aral opposing Bibi is not antisemitism it's opposition to war crimes. If you are Jewish, and/or pro-Israel you need to face the damage this is doing to both. The IDF , at some point, has become amoral on some critical level. The people planning and executing this war are every bit as much war criminals as Putin's army, and the very real anti-semites will use that in a viscous and prolonged way.