IDF claims ‘armed assailants’ tried to hijack vehicle leading convoy of medical supplies, but aid organiser says those killed were transport company staff

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said they carried out an airstrike on a humanitarian aid convoy in Gaza aimed at “armed assailants” trying to hijack it but the charity that organised the aid said people killed in the strike were employees of the transport company it was working with.

The convoy, organised by the US-based NGO Anera, was carrying medical supplies and fuel to an Emirati-run hospital in Rafah on Thursday evening at the time of the attack. Its route had been coordinated in advance with the IDF, under a deconfliction process intended to prevent aid vehicles being bombed.

Anera’s Palestine country director, Sandra Rasheed, said: “This is a shocking incident. The convoy, which was coordinated by Anera and approved by Israeli authorities, included an Anera employee who was fortunately unharmed.

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    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      49·
      20 days ago

      Which was allowed under Congress’s authorization. The president can’t sell weapons to just anyone. Well unless they’re part of the Republican cult.

      • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
        134·
        20 days ago

        And you know unless he fucking wants to.

        Stop trying to absolve him.

              • Antmz22@lemm.eeEnglish
                75·
                20 days ago

                That doesn’t absolve him.

                Pretty sure

                It has little to nothing to do with the president.

                Is a direct absolvement.

                Chum used the plural, arms. If someone ships you arms once, have they arms you. Or have they armed you. English 101.

                Hmm,

                https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-congress-1dc77f20aac4a797df6a2338b677da4f

                “For the second time this month the Biden administration is bypassing Congress to approve an emergency weapons sale to Israel as Israel continues to prosecute its war against Hamas in Gaza under increasing international criticism.”

                Let’s look at that “English 101” again…I’m pretty sure doing something multiple times doesn’t count as once…

                Biden armed them once, by bypassing pre approval by Congress once. Shortly after the attack. Before it was unabashedly clear Israel’s goal was genocide.

                So Biden did in fact arm them and it doesn’t have “little to nothing to do with the president”?

                The UN had called for the international community to recognize the threat of genocide over a month before Biden bypassed Congress twice to send them weapons to carry out said genocide

                https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-un-experts-call-international-community-prevent-genocide-against

                “They illustrated evidence of increasing genocidal incitement, overt intent to “destroy the Palestinian people under occupation”, loud calls for a ‘second Nakba’ in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, and the use of powerful weaponry with inherently indiscriminate impacts, resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.”

                Also, very gross to whitewash israel. It’s been clear the goal was genocide since before oct-7 even happened.

                People have been calling for an end to Israels genocidal apartheid for decades, history didn’t start the day after oct-7. I’ve personally been opposing Israels genocidal actions and rhetoric since at least 2015, Biden doesn’t have an excuse.

                Here’s amnesty calling out the apartheid from 2022.

                https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2022/02/israels-system-of-apartheid/

                Here’s the UN in 2016.

                https://press.un.org/en/2016/gapal1379.doc.htm

                Biden can not claim ignorance, and you shouldn’t try to grant him that excuse, it’s just genocide apologia.

                  • Antmz22@lemm.eeEnglish
                    56·
                    20 days ago

                    things don’t mean what the the person who said the nintended. They only mean what I want them to be.

                    Lol what.

                    Absolve: declare (someone) free from guilt.

                    Their comment

                    It has little to nothing to do with the president.

                    Is objectively an absolvement of Bidens role in the genocide. I’m not changing words here, youre just denying the obvious.

                    Ah so it is all about circle jerking and empty virtue signaling for you. The apartheid has been going on close to 80 years at this point. Since before Biden was in high school let alone the Senate. If you want to prove that Biden was some evil Super Genius grade school kid. You’re going to need something more than a link to something that happened in 2022.

                    What the hell are you talking about. I didn’t say Biden started the damned apartheid state. I said he actively chose to arm the apartheid genocidal state, YOU Are the one who said he armed them NOW.

                    Also "stop virtue signaling over genocide is an absolutely insane and EVIL thing to say or believe.

                    Before it was unabashedly clear Israel’s goal was genocide.

                    So what is it, has been evil so we can’t blame Biden for that, or Biden couldn’t have known Israel would do evil with the weapons so we can’t blame Biden?

                    You can’t have both.

                    Why either of you is still so obsessed over Biden who won’t even be in office in 4 months. But either way there’s no intelligent conversation with you. So blocked and by Felicia.

                    ** You** are tying yourself in knots to defend someone carrying out a genocide. I’m simply pointing out the fact that he is objectively responsible for arming the genocide.

                    Maybe grow up and stop blocking anyone who disagrees with you…but I guess the cognitive dissonance hurts too bad when you have to think about how you are actively supporting a literal genocide? .