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
    1310·
    20 days 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
        216·
        20 days 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
          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.