A US-based aid group admitted Friday that a group of individuals — who the Israeli military says were armed — took control of an aid convoy in the southern Gaza Strip the day before, without the organization having vetted them or coordinated the matter with the Israel Defense Forces.
The military said Thursday that it struck the gunmen, killing them while not harming aid workers.
According to the IDF, Hamas operatives frequently try to hijack aid deliveries.
The IDF had said on Thursday that a convoy of aid trucks from the American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) organization entered the southern Rafah area with Israeli coordination. It said that during the drive, it identified a group of gunmen taking over a vehicle at the front of the convoy and beginning to lead it. The IDF described the act as a hijacking attempt.
Shortly afterward, the IDF said it was able to determine that it could strike just the car with the gunmen, without harming the rest of the convoy, and so it carried out a strike, killing at least four.
This is the kind of hyperbole that makes it real easy for others to label critics of the actions of current Israeli leadership antisemites.
No, Israelis are not trying to exterminate all Palestinians; Yes, Netanyahu does not care about limiting collateral damage when targeting suspected Hamas militants.
If you’re passionate enough to comment, be passionate enough to communicate unambiguously.
Yes, the “all Palestinians on the planet” bit was indeed extreme. They don’t really care about Palestinians in, say, Michigan. It’s the ones in Gaza and the West Bank they want to get rid of. Ideally with “simple” ethnic cleansing and expulsion, a second Nakba, like their high ranking government officials have been saying. But in less than ideal situations, like the current one, their low ranking officials, military officers, prison guards, soldiers etc have already shown they are perfectly capable of hearing the genocidal dog whistle.
Nah I really mean it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Israeli_assassinations
They also killed many non violent political activists. Additionally Zionists deny Palestinians their Palestinian identity and just refer to them as „Arabs“. Any Palestinian who insists on their right to exist in their native homeland and is politically active in that matter can be killed literally anywhere anytime. The only way for a Palestinian to be left alone by the Zionist entity is to renounce their Palestinianness.
I didn’t say you didn’t mean It, I said it was an extreme statement and I stand by that characterization. I won’t deny that Israel has assassinated Palestinians in the rest of the world (I mean, …Haniyeh) but it’s absolutely not the case that any Palestinian anywhere is in danger from the Mossad simply for asserting their identity. The Israelis just haven’t sunk down to that level.
Fair enough, just saying that as the list shows even being merely an intellectual trying to keep the identity and culture alive can get you killed and what keeps alive a people’s identity if not culture? Anyway I understand that it sounds extreme to some and I think that’s okay.
no, it’s not hyperbole, please look up what many members of the Israeli government actually want, they are literally international wanted terrorists who’s sole missions is the extermination of the Palestinian peoples, that’s why they are literally referred to as “human animals”, “Canaanites”(a people that historically were genocided by the Israeli, even according to their own holy texts), are blamed for the holocaust (yes really).
Try harder