POLITICO reported Tuesday that the US has been sharing with Israel the location of humanitarian groups in Gaza in an attempt to prevent strikes on the sites. But Israel has been bombing them anyway.
The information has included GPS coordinates of a number of medical facilities and the movement of aid groups inside Gaza. Among the sites the US shared with Israel was al-Shifa hospital, which Israeli forces raided last week, causing the medical facility to cease functioning and the deaths of dozens of patients, including eight premature babies.
The US has tried to deflect blame for Israel’s attack on al-Shifa and other hospitals. The White House has said it doesn’t “want to see hospitals as battlegrounds,” but the US continues to provide unconditional military aid for Israel’s operations despite the massive civilian casualty rate.
The POLITICO report said it’s unclear if the US has provided Israel with a “no-strike” list or if it’s just offering guidance. Considering the White House has also said it’s not setting “red lines” for Israel’s onslaught, it’s unlikely the US is demanding certain sites are off limits.
Aid workers have said Israel has abandoned practices it has used before to prevent attacks on aid groups, such as a deconfliction line. “There is really no justification for the lack of a functioning deconfliction channel with aid groups,” a senior aid group official told POLITICO. “The IDF is familiar with deconfliction practices and has put a channel in place in previous conflicts.”
Some aid groups turned to the US last month to help protect their workers. But after the US engaged with Israel on the location of aid groups’ offices, houses, and medical facilities, the attacks continued. Israel’s frequent targeting of aid groups is demonstrated by the fact that over 100 aid workers with the UN’s Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees have been killed in Gaza since October 7.
DC is a sewer. End of story.
That’s a huge insult to …sewers. End of story.
Sewers actually serve an important function in keeping places sanitary and free from flooding.
DC is more of a cancerous tumor which has metastasized throughout our country (and world) in the form of the US Federal government.
The war crimes trials will be epic.
War crimes have no statute of limitations a couple of years ago – a 90 something year old German women was tried and found guilty of war crimes. Her crime ? She was a 18 year old civilian typist in a camp.
Maybe. A combination of fortuitous elections and concerted dedollarization just may result in a collapse of the US Federal government which would be a precondition for any meaningful prosecution of those supporting and steering the Waffen IDF in their massacre of Gazan kids.
Maybe if about 100-200 million of us refuse to pay our taxes come 15April24……………………just refuse to fund our fascist meanderings throughout the world, and support of other evil leaders.
Well those who get Social Security checks will not be happy with a collapsed federal government. On the other hand the 150,000 federal prisoners now on the loose would like it.
Shut up, phony. You are not American.
Stop the WE / OUR Bullsh!t.
You are Russian, be honest.
Better a Russian than a damned Nazi like YOU!
“The war crimes trials will be epic.”
It is exceedingly unlikely, unless world geopolitical reality changes in ways that are also exceedingly unlikely, that there will be any meaningful war crimes trials at all.
Fine, dispense with the trails and just throw them to the mob.
The constellation of forces is rapidly changing
I’m tempted to ask how old you are . . .
100+ nukes say that these war crimes will never be prosecuted …
DAVE, you took the words out of my mouth. Israel is so nice. When “US Shared Location of Aid Groups With Israel. Israel Bombed Them Anyway.”
Disgusting.
You are putting it too mildly. Demonic is the word.
The US has forfeited its right to exist.
It never had a right to exist.
My impression is lower level humans have attempted to live and believe an American dream. Although the attempt was and is derailed by propaganda, a fairly large number of US citizens would like to live in a decent country even if they don’t believe there is anything they can do to bring it about.
This American citizen would like to. But then, like George Carlin said; to believe in the American Dream we would have to be asleep.
King George the third would agree with you.
If don’t like living in the US, you are free to move. I head there is some cheap housing available in Mariupol.
Or maybe he stays and all those in favor of war can move to Mariupol.
I don’t plan on leaving… Waiting around for a new, less warlike government to evolve.
Love it or Leave, aye?
Fuck you.
GRRR what
The fanatically religious Netanyahu government wanted to strike Gaza before Joe Biden leaves the White House. Netanyahu knew that Biden is their man. And he has delivered big time.
See how Joe Biden‘s unconditional and open ended military aid for Israel’s murderous operations despite the massive civilian casualty rate.
Why? It’s not like Trump, or any other republican seeking the office, will do anything differently.
On December 6, 2017, Trump recognized, formally, that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, and, had the American Embassy moved to Jerusalem.
Joe has been delivering since 1973.
Did you missed the part where Hamas attacked on Oct 7?
Did you miss the part where some of those “innocent” victims were soldiers/police and many were likely killed by their own side? Oh, my bad. We’re not supposed to know that. That’s not part of the MSM/Israeli narrative.
No Israel backing = No Hamas in power = No October 7th.
Netanyahu: “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas,” Netanyahu told a meeting of his Likud party in 2019. “This is part of our strategy – to isolate the Palestinians in Gaza from the Palestinians in the West Bank.”
“Bezalel Smotrich, leader of Israel’s Religious Zionist Party and the current finance minister: The PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. On the international playing field in this game of delegitimization, think about for a second, the PA is a liability and Hamas is an asset. It’s a terrorist organization. Nobody will recognize it, nobody will give it status at the ICC [International Criminal Court] and nobody will let them push resolutions at the UN [causing us to] need an American veto,” Smotrich said in 2015.
Did you miss the part where Israel let the 10-t7 attacks happen?
Did you miss the fact that the victims were nearly all left wing Netanyahu supporters?
Did you miss that old saying, “2 wrongs don’t make a right?”
‘Daa…I’ma-Zionist…daaa’-Biden? Sure he’s their guy, but…
1/ It’s not just Biden or Democrats – the US is a ‘uniparty’ where historically unconditional support for Israel goes.
2/ What has made US support so intractable is a combination of ‘foreign policy’ and ‘domestic’ politics.
a/ US foreign policy – Israel projects US military and political power in the ME, a military-centric posture entirely imbricated in the US’s greater military interventionist, ‘spheres of influence’ great power politics.
b/ US domestic policy – Besides its longstanding, proclaimed ‘national security’ and ‘military strength abroad’ political identity, the Republican Party has long sought to split the mainly Democratic ‘Jewish vote’ by being the bigger Israel booster.
Some years ago, the Canadian federal gov’t created a Do Not Call list. Citizens who did not want to be contacted by telemarketers could sign up their phone number(s), and the gov’t told telemarketer they could not call anyone on the list.
Perhaps domestic telemarketers obeyed. Maybe not. But the international ones just said thanks – thanks for the list of active names and numbers we can use for our ‘bots.
Did the US just hand over a Do (Not) Strike list ?
Maybe.
Just https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/f5201724d1c3e173f35631c1fbba6423e29eecf32f2ce08baf8378c706cb1f71.jpg in time for a christmas story…No not that one, this one!
usa on the left,israel on the right…very far right!
would any other country get away with what Israel is doing without the US saying anything about it.
“US Share[s] Location of Aid Groups With Israel. Israel Bomb[s]”…
…asks US to ‘keep sending coordinates.’
Which we will. Just, our intelligence is So Bad, and So Incompetent, that the “coordinates” we send could be a reference to anything. Goats, for example. We mistake lots of those for “Al Qaeda Second in Commands”.
If and when we go to another country, I AM NOT going to admit being an American. I am so G-d D-mn ashamed.
Bibi is the Madam. Biden is the Call Boy. Earth is the John.
Who says they sent the data to prevent strikes? Why not to cause them? Why should we believe anything out of the mouths of the scum who rule America?
Incredible
We did the exact same thing in Iraq; at least one news story stands out; a Humvee was destroyed on patrol in Baghdad; a day later, an Al Jazeera camera crew was on the scene, photographing Iraqi civilians, many of which were children, climbing on the now-cooled off but burned out hulk of the vehicle, protesting our illegal occupation (as they have every right to, and every justification for) when a US attack helicopter launched a hellfire missile at the wreck, killing the camera crew and a number of civilians – premeditated, cold blooded murder perpetrated by our Heroes in Uniform, Thank You for your fucking service. Of course, no one was held accountable or charged, the “reason given” was that the wrecked Humvee contained “sensitive equipment” whose capture would “endanger US lives” so “Had to be destroyed. Liars, Murderers, and Fuckwits; makes me embarrassed by MY service.
Some aid groups turned to the US last month to help protect their workers.
Suckers… Sorry but given all we’ve come to know about US, there’s just no other word for it.