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With famine looming, aid group halts food delivery in Gaza after Israeli strike kills 7 workers
AP ^ | 04/02/2024 | WAFAA SHURAFA AND SAMY MAGDY

Posted on 04/02/2024 12:36:51 PM PDT by thegagline

An international charity suspended delivery of food to starving Palestinians on Tuesday, a day after an Israeli airstrike killed seven aid workers from World Central Kitchen who were trying to ease the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Ships still laden with some 240 tons of aid from the charity that arrived Monday turned back from Gaza, according to Cyprus, which has played a key role in trying to establish a sea route to bring food to the territory.***

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu acknowledged that the country’s forces had carried out the “unintended strike ... on innocent people.” He said officials were looking into the strike and would work to ensure it did not happen again.

World Central Kitchen said it had coordinated with the Israeli military over the movement of the cars carrying the workers as they left northern Gaza late Monday. Footage of the aftermath showed a vehicle with the charity’s logo printed across its roof to make it identifiable from the air. The projectile punched a large hole through the roof. Two other vehicles in the convoy were incinerated and mangled, indicating multiple hits.

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The strike also underscored what critics have called the Israeli military’s disregard for civilian casualties in its Gaza campaign, which it says is aimed at destroying Hamas after its Oct. 7 attacks on Israel.

Throughout the war, Israeli forces have shown readiness to inflict widespread destruction when they believe a suspected militant is present or when ground troops see a tactical need to strike.

Homes with families sheltering inside are leveled by strikes almost daily. The military has struck ambulances and aid vehicles, saying that armed fighters were in them.

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(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Gaza; Hamas; Israel; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: aid; antisemitism; apfakenews; dissociatedpress; fakenews; israel; palestinians; rop; unitednations; unrwa; untiednations; unwra; war
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To: thegagline

The ships should turn back around and deliver the aid.


21 posted on 04/02/2024 1:29:25 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: thegagline

When we carpet bombed Dresden, did we worry about civilians?

Should we have? NO!


22 posted on 04/02/2024 1:38:44 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: thegagline

It’s a war zone.


23 posted on 04/02/2024 1:39:33 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: thegagline

As Richard Nixon said “War is Heck!”


24 posted on 04/02/2024 1:39:34 PM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts )
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To: thegagline
“unintended strike ... on innocent people.”

Show me the entire transcript ... I'm fairly certain this cut-and-paste is a hit-job on what he actually said.

AP = All propaganda

25 posted on 04/02/2024 1:54:14 PM PDT by dartuser
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To: thegagline

What innocent people? They were bringing aid and comfort to Israel’s enemy.


26 posted on 04/02/2024 2:01:21 PM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH!)
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To: princeofdarkness

Wish I had known that. Ate at his restaurant in DC. Have to say is was very good. Didn’t know he was an @ss. My mistake.


27 posted on 04/02/2024 2:10:44 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Equity" = "All animals are equal. Some animals are more equal than others.")
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To: thegagline

A pack of lies.


28 posted on 04/02/2024 2:31:00 PM PDT by Socon-Econ (adi)
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To: thegagline

“With famine looming, aid group halts food delivery in Gaza after Israeli strike kills 7 workers”

perhaps that was the point of the strike


29 posted on 04/02/2024 2:40:11 PM PDT by Sunsong
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To: All
For everyone that is questioning the veracity of the AP article:

Here is the Times of Israel article regarding the event:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-promises-probe-as-slain-aid-workers-home-countries-demand-explanation/

Here is the Jerusalem Post article regarding the event:
https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/article-794861

30 posted on 04/02/2024 2:56:35 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: All

31 posted on 04/02/2024 3:02:19 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: thegagline
Don't care about the veracity, certainly don't care about aid workers who shouldn't be there in the first place.

Too bad, not sad. The Paliwogs brought this upon themselves. Live in peace with your neighbors, or generate your very own self fulfilled Death Wish.

32 posted on 04/02/2024 3:17:05 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: thegagline

Don’t start a war. That simple.


33 posted on 04/02/2024 3:22:00 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Is it me, or all of a sudden have the buried trolls come out on FR like cicadas? It's all noise.)
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To: Pox
Don't care about the veracity, certainly don't care about aid workers who shouldn't be there in the first place.

Were you cheering on the Israeli attack on the USS Liberty too?

Even during WWII Germany permitted aid from the allies to reach the POWs.

34 posted on 04/02/2024 3:25:27 PM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater & Thomas Sowell in 2024)
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To: thegagline

Well uh, oops!


35 posted on 04/02/2024 3:49:53 PM PDT by old school
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To: thegagline

And you know for a fact that there were no unintentional attacks on aid workers that Germany supposedly allowed in for the POWs? It’s a war, FFS. Sh!t happens.


36 posted on 04/02/2024 3:59:43 PM PDT by Prince of Space (Trump 2024!)
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To: thegagline

This war stops the moment Hamas surrenders and releases the hostages.

Why does no one say that?

L


37 posted on 04/02/2024 4:00:53 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: thegagline

“Even during WWII Germany permitted aid from the allies to reach the POWs.”

They aren’t POWs. They’re hostages. And Hamas hasn’t allowed any access to them. They’re worse than the Nazis. At least they let the Red Cross in.

L


38 posted on 04/02/2024 4:04:24 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: thegagline

The aid workers shouldn’t have been shooting at the IDF.


39 posted on 04/02/2024 4:17:28 PM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: Olog-hai

Birds of a feather and all that.


40 posted on 04/02/2024 4:20:24 PM PDT by princeofdarkness
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