World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.

Despite coordinating movements with the IDF, the convoy was hit

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

The seven killed are from Australia, Poland, UK, US, Canada, and Palestine.

https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update

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World Central Kitchen | 7 WCK team members killed in Gaza

World Central Kitchen is devastated to confirm seven members of our team have been killed in an IDF strike in Gaza.

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@aral

Sorry 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 @aral

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.

@earthworm @aral

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