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.
“Tragically, several individuals, all employed by the transportation company we work with, were killed in the attack. They were in the first vehicle of the convoy.”
Unconfirmed reports from Gaza said five people were killed in the airstrike.
An IDF statement confirmed […]
This behavior is just part of “business as usual” for the empire. The difference here is that it’s being documented more thoroughly than past genocides. It will disappear as a topic (except for some historians) because it will be eclipsed by the next wars planned by the neo-cons: Russia, Iran and China. If these wars are prosecuted you and your children will suffer, especially with the increased risk of the use of nuclear weapons. What I suspect will happen is that the empire will continue to criminalize speech and jail journalists for reporting, just as it happened for Julian Assange and is occurring in England now. The so called “Patriot Act” makes this possible. Just to remind you the Patriot Act’s initial draft was completed by Biden. So, Harris may slow the slide toward increased Oligarchy and inverted totalitarianism but she won’t stop it. She is part and parcel of the system. It’s why the elites selected her in the non-smoking back rooms. Want this to stop? Think and vote outside the box. The duopoly is not on your side.