Strike That Killed World Central Kitchen Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike
Strike That Killed World Central Kitchen Workers Bears Hallmarks of Israeli Precision Strike
Bellingcat analysed images of three destroyed and damaged vehicles struck by Israeli forces.
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
184This 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!
55Worse, they purposely targeted and killed an American, and our government will still supply them weapons. Israel can do whatever the hell it wants with no punishment. I’m so disgusted at this point. Definatley not voting for Genocide Joe now.
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The World Central Kitchen charity suspended delivery of food to starving Palestinians on Tuesday - this was the real goal of the attack.
104Yep. Israel will just investigate themselves and say whoopsies but the message couldn't have been more clear.
They're fucking evil.
49Not just them. Several aid and medical NGOs are leaving now.
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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.
94Israel 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.
88I 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.
27Intentional or blatantly incompetent, it's quite clear that Israel is using the same playbook as Putin when he strikes civilians in Ukraine.
20Israel 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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was killing passport holders from western countries
I think that was intentional too, it's aimed at scaring the volunteers.
19Getting called out for it was unintentional.
7I don't think even that's true. I think any potential consequences this story making the news could possibly incite have already been set in motion from what's already been in the news the past few months. They won't take any additional hit from one more thing added to the pile, but this being in the news will make activists think twice about risking their lives to provide aid.
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Precision Murder
Let’s please call it what it is.
69Anyone notice how Israel is apologetic for killing foreign aid workers but treats the deaths of non-combatant Palestinians with complete and utter indifference?
53Are 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.
45The Israeli president and prime minister have apologized. Not saying that's anywhere near enough, but it is an official apologetic stance.
9You mean the classic Israeli thing? They do this all the time. And 5 years from now when no one is paying attention they will admit it’s intentional
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Dehumanize the enemy so you don't feel bad about killing them. A classic genocide tactic.
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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.
49It hit 3 aid trucks 1km apart from each other
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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.
44Usually 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...
37The fact that this nazi state has nukes should terrify us all
36I think a lot of people just think they will steal Palestine and then be satisfied, forgetting that greed, arrogance, and lebensraum know no bounds. Why would Israel want tons of fighter jets? It's not to wipe out a million starving Palestinians in Gaza, you don't need jets for that. And this should come as no surprise, since David Ben-Gurion said that the success of the 1948 U.N. partition plan of Palestine was part of a larger plan:
Zionist leaders, in particular David Ben-Gurion, viewed the acceptance of the plan as a tactical step and a stepping stone to future territorial expansion over all of Palestine.
and the early terrorist groups that established Israel and the IDF also expressly stated expansion was their aim:
Irgun emblem. The map shows both Mandatory Palestine and the Emirate of Transjordan, which the Irgun claimed in its entirety for a future Jewish state. The acronym "Etzel" is written above the map, and "raq kach" ("only thus") is written below.
Fun fact about the 1948 U.N. partition plan:
The Arab Higher Committee, the Arab League and other Arab leaders and governments rejected it on the basis that in addition to the Arabs forming a two-thirds majority, they owned a majority of the lands.[20][21] They also indicated an unwillingness to accept any form of territorial division,[22] arguing that it violated the principles of national self-determination in the UN Charter which granted people the right to decide their own destiny.
And Israel bribed, threatened, and offered loans (given by the U.S.) to countries to vote in favor of the partition plan, so anyone who supports Israel on the basis of justice or fairness really doesn't have a leg to stand on.
In that link, the section
Reports of pressure against the Planshows just how anti-semitic Zionism is.5Albeit it is impossible to know how many for certain, last time I looked into it, the claim was that they had between 4-7 nukes.
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If Israel can get away with USS Liberty, they can probably get away with about anything.
32They 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.
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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.
30Anything with 2 legs in Palestina which is not Israeli is a Hamas terrorist /s
28Fuck Israel.
27Capostan. Use it's proper name.
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That's fucked up but not unexpected sadly.
26Zionists can murder whoever they like and Western governments will defend the killers.
25We can only conclude that there are a lot of closet Nazi-level Fascists amongst western power elites.
8Closet? Ain't no closet anymore.
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It seems IDF has a serious drug induced psychosis. Hamas everywhere!!!!!
22Israel is an enemy of everything good.
19Add USA/UK and core Anglo fascism nations to that list.
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What I'm reading from this is "they murdered these aid workers on purpose".
18Israel 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...
18Nah, the IDF just wants to starve children to death. Killing aid workers is a bonus to them.
20Diverging IDF agendas: "Should we bomb the children or starve them?"
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Democrats provided the precision munitions that caused this atrocity.
12Uh oh! If Israel kills 3 or 400 more Aid Workers they might only get a COUPLE of Fighter Jets instead of a TON of Fighter Jets from Biden!
8I have learned one thing from a lot of stuff going on IRL and in the world.
There is no god, and there is no karma. Religions are fairytale bullshit meant to keep us busy. And there is no equality in this world, and there never will be.
8Could be,you just have to make it, Bad its gonna be real messy and not always feel good.
And also, aside from all that, the fuckers at the top are going to try and kill you if you try, as happened here.
If it helps, there are actually studies showing apes have toxic irrationally violent dominance behaviors when they're perceived as being in a position of power. So the key is keeping coordination while decentralizing power.
3Imagine, a god out of thousands mentioned in Human history, one that creates a vast, vast universe that is about 13 billion years old. A later game star has a planet in its orbit, in its Goldilock zone, where life has been evolving for at least 350 million years... and right next to the end of that planet's current history, a tiny group of humans, from a tribe out who knows how many others in that region thinks that said god gave them super special dominion over everyone else. Chosen, if you will.
On top of that, a special unique claim is given to a tiny bit, a sliver of land because said god got into a literal fist fight over a stream over a whole night and suposedly made the guy who later became their leader this offer, an offer that no else saw happen... An offer that said tribe, his tribe, would use thousands of years later, with all the science and understanding we all have, to oppress people, and bomb hospitals, and volunteers who gave food to poor, starving people. Because, trust me, bro. Do not ever question the validity of the land claim, because, trust me, bro.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis 32%3A22-31&version=NIV
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
The food charity World Central Kitchen (WCK) said they had coordinated the convoy’s movements with the Israel Defense Forces.
In response to the strike, the IDF stated that it “is conducting a thorough review at the highest levels to understand the circumstances of this tragic incident.”
Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday the aid workers were killed in an “unintended strike.”The destroyed vehicles bear the hallmarks of a precision strike, which only the IDF has the capability to conduct in the region.
The WCK said: “the convoy was hit as it was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the team had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza on the maritime route.”
Although not possible to be certain without fragments of the munition itself, the WCK vehicles bear the hallmarks of a precision strike by inert or low-yield missiles.
Some, called “electro-optically guided” are physically directed to their target by an operator watching a TV feed, such as the Spike NLOS.
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7The World will remember that......
2No they won't
6Remember what?
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These are the hallmarks of either anti-personel smart bombs or drones. The small bombs can penetrate a vehicle and blow up in a small radious. The concusive force and/or shrapnel/blades is what kills.
Perhaps, something like this?
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/hellfire-r9x-drone-strike-al-zawahiri/
They are also used for assassinations since they minimise collateral damage or assets due to their small kill radius in comparison to larger, explosive bombs. If they used drones, then they could likely have a operator guiding them, which is even worse. Since how do you, uh, mis-identify volunteers? Or just hit any vehicles that moved, indiscriminately.
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-7Do you condemn Israel?
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