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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  • Deceptichum@quokk.auEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Oh is that why Biden arms them?

    Let’s not pretend this is just a few extremist Christians, its much deeper than that.

      • xhrit@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        5 months ago

        The founding father and first president of Palestine, Raj Amin Al-Huseni, was a member of the richest land owning family in palestine, a family who earned it’s wealth by being given the throne of jerusalem in a wedding present when the patriarch of the al-huseni clan, Husayn ibn Ali married the profit Muhammad’s daughter Fatima.

        The profit Muhammad owned the throne of Jerusalem after migrating from the Arabian Penninsula and conquering it from the natives.

        Oh, Raj is a title. It comes from the Sanskrit word ‘raja,’ which means ‘prince.’

        Raj Amin Al-Huseni was an islamic royalist, and next in line to inherit the kingdom of jersuem to rule as a king.

        Source : The Rise and Fall of the Husaynis, 1840-1922 (part 1)

        https://www.palestine-studies.org/en/node/78111

        • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          5 months 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.

            • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              5 months ago

              Where did I try to absolve him? I think it was wrong that he did it. But it’s still falls to the congress. Why do you always have to rely on strawman and arguing things that people never said? Well I mean besides the fact that you’re likely a foreigner who has no idea what they’re talking about.

              Stop being a cunt mate.

                • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                  5 months ago

                  That doesn’t absolve him.

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

                  Chum was putting the current situation entirely on the president’s shoulders. Where it doesn’t belong. 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. I still think it was wrong of biden to do it that one time. Since then he’s also stopped/delayed arms too. But I digress.

                  I know the goal of the left is to divide the left. But it’s still a bit jarring to see those like yourself who try to identity as left. Acting as footsoldiers for the bourgeoisie for free. Screeching ignorant BS like “blue maga” because you’re more concerned with virtue signaling. Than engaging with reality and effecting positive change. My state lost a pro Palestinian Congress person. Because a bunch of people were more interested in virtue signaling against biden, than funding and supporting Congress people that supported Palestine. And pushing primary candidates against those who don’t. Enjoy your empty victory?