Israel launched three separate drone strikes on an aid convoy in its attack that killed seven World Central Kitchen aid workers, Haaretz reported on Tuesday.
One Israeli drone fired three missiles at three cars that were clearly marked with the WCK’s logos and were traveling on roads preapproved by the Israeli military. After the first car was hit, wounded survivors were picked up by a second car. After that car was hit, they went into the third car. Then, the Israeli drone finished the job.
The attack killed three British nationals, a dual American-Canadian citizen, a Palestinian, an Australian, and a Polish citizen. Israeli officials have claimed the airstrikes were a mistake, but the meticulous nature of the operation suggests it was a targeted killing of aid workers and part of Israel’s campaign to starve Palestinians, as several aid organizations have suspended operations in Gaza in response.
According to Israeli sources speaking to Haaretz, the three cars were hit after escorting an aid truck to a food warehouse in central Gaza.
The sources said the Israeli unit responsible for the route claimed to identify an armed man on the aid truck and suspected he was a “terrorist,” although he could have just been providing security for the aid shipment. Israel has repeatedly targeted Gaza’s police officers who guard aid convoys.
The alleged armed man was the justification for the strike, even though the cars were hit after leaving the aid truck at the warehouse. Another Haaretz report cited Israeli sources who said the strikes happened not because of a lack of coordination between aid groups and the Israeli military but because Israeli “officers on the ground do what they want.”
The White House defended the Israeli slaughter of aid workers during a press briefing on Tuesday. White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby claimed there was “no evidence” that it was a deliberate strike in a testy exchange with a reporter.
When asked if killing aid workers violated international humanitarian law, Kirby said, “Your question presumes, at this very early hour, that it was a deliberate strike, that they knew exactly what they were hitting, that they were hitting aid workers and did it on purpose. There’s no evidence of that.”
Kirby also repeated a lie from the State Department that there was no evidence that Israel has violated international law since October 7. “I will also remind you, sir, that we continue to look at incidents as they occur. The State Department has a process in place, and to date, as you and I are speaking today, they have not found any incidents where the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law,” he said.
Israel has been bombing aid workers in Gaza throughout the war as hundreds of employees of the UN’s Palestinian relief agency, UNWRA, have been killed. Back in November, POLITICO reported that the US was sharing with Israel the location of aid groups in Gaza to avoid strikes on those areas, but Israel was bombing them anyway.
Kirby also repeated a lie from the State Department that there was no evidence that Israel has violated international law since October 7. “I will also remind you, sir, that we continue to look at incidents as they occur. The State Department has a process in place, and to date, as you and I are speaking today, they have not found any incidents where the Israelis have violated international humanitarian law,” he said
Doing a version of Baghdad Bob. If Kirby were actually there he would be speaking as he stepped over starving Gazans.
He always tumble on his lies…!
So damn smarmy … “I remind you, sir” … makes you throw up.
With that smirk on his face…
Makes me want to knock his front teeth out.
He would be dodging IDF drone bombs.
Good point. Snipers too. And he would be in a kill zone. Like many pointed out, all of Gaza is a kill zone.
Here a a video of settler Rabbi Eliyahu Mali instructing students at his Yeshiva how to conduct the war in Gaza. Many of Rabbi Mali’s students serve in the IDF. His logic is simple:. Today’s Hamas fighters were children in the last war who grew up to kill Israelis. So he invokes the Torah to urge his students to kill the children so they don’t grow up to be terrorists and to kill the women who give birth to future terrorists. If you follow his logic, that it is holy to kill children and mothers, then it follows that people who feed children who might grow up to be terrorists need to be killed as well. After all, the meals World Central Kitchen was delivering was saving the lives of future terrorists.
Sadly, Rabbi Mali is not the only rabbi who supports genocide. Rabbi Mali and other Israeli rabbis get state subsidies to establish yeshivas in the occupied West Bank. Maybe one of their students was responsible for targeting the WCK aid workers.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1766226281505406994
Israel is so lucky, to get away with this much murder. And the best part, if tomorrow they attack the U.S. carriers in the Mediterranean, they just have to take it and not fire back.
Not to mention the unprovoked attack on the USS Liberty where the Zionist got a free pass after trying to sink and killed many US Sailors and then fired on Sailors in life rafts which is a war crime .
Indeed, they remember the Liberty. Most Americans do not, because they never heard about it in the first place.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Liberty_incident
Maybe like then, this is coordination not just support:
‘But Sir, It’s an American Ship.’ ‘Never Mind, Hit Her!’ When Israel Attacked USS Liberty
The authors’ bottom line is that then-U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson was behind the attack, in an attempt to blame then-Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser – an excuse that would then enable the United States to join the Six-Day War.
https://www.sott.net/article/419445-But-Sir-Its-an-American-Ship-Never-Mind-Hit-Her-When-Israel-Knowingly-Attacked-USS-Liberty
It was LBJ who gave them a free pass for the war crime , all the survivors where scattered far and wide and threaten with prison if they ever talked about it .
No, he did not want to “embarrass” an ally. Pilots in American jets who were on the way to intercept the attackers were p*ssed that they were called back.
I would not automatically assume it wasn’t a coordinated false flag operation.
THE DANCING ISRAELIS: FBI DOCS SHED LIGHT ON APPARENT MOSSAD FOREKNOWLEDGE OF
9/11 ATTACKS
NEW YORK — For nearly two decades, one of the most overlooked and little known arrests made in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks was that of the so-called “High Fivers,” or the “Dancing Israelis.” However, new information released by the FBI on May 7 has brought fresh scrutiny to the possibility that the “Dancing Israelis,” at least two of whom were known Mossad operatives, had prior knowledge of the attacks on the World Trade Center.
https://www.mintpressnews.com/newly-released-fbi-docs-shed-light-on-apparent-mossad-foreknowledge-of-9-11-attacks/258581/
“Our enemies are your enemies.”
Remember the Maine.
As I recall it happened because the Liberty would have learned something Israel didn’t want the US to know about the war.
This is the same group that just sent ships with food to Gaza from Crete. That may well be why they were targeted, the Israelis are nothing if not vindictive.
Something not mentioned is that this convoy was CLEARED WITH THE IDF before they set out – and then after the first drone strike, they CALLED THE IDF to complain – and got hit twice more.
And now the Israeli spokesman comes on and says “we are so sorry”.
Yeah, right. This is a genocidal sick society that deserves to be wiped off the map – and I don’t mean the “map of history” as Iran once said, I mean physically off the map.
The US promotes it. I’m starting to consider that it goes beyond lobbyists and is the Yinon Plan with the US stamp of approval for insane empire expansion.
The Zionist Plan For The Middle East By Oded Yinon Israël Shahak [ Yinon, Oded Shahak, Israël]
The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive, Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must effect the division of the whole area into small states by the dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state.
Consequently, the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel’s satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation.
https://archive.org/details/the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east-by-oded-yinon-israel-shahak-yinon-oded-shah/page/n2/mode/1up
It might be neat to break the region up if it could be stable. Israel is too tiny to be imperial without the US. Turkey or someone else would fill the vacuum before Israel.
Israelis would be safer if they moved to NY and Florida.
They are the promoters of aggressions in the ME.
Whatever the case, the US should just end funding. I don’t really hate Israel; I just hate how extreme their nationalism is. It makes nationalism look bad, and I can’t believe what they do to those outside their group. It’s beyond belief.
Israel is a nation based on hate and ethnic religious supremacy.
You could say the same about most every polity.
No. You really can’t.
“This is a genocidal sick society that deserves to be wiped off the map”
I don’t agree – so long as we’re fantasizing, I want nationwide reeducation, starting with every IDF soldier doing a year of service in a US-paid-for hospital, rehabilitation center, school, or Palestinian household in Gaza, engaged in the daily care of an amputated child.
Require that they be paras for kids with no legs, in schools where lots of Palestinian children are missing limbs. Like any educator, they should know the personal history of a class they serve – for example, they should know the students with one surviving parent. The students with surviving family members. And the students with no parents.
Later, this care for the physically and emotionally wounded of Gaza and the West bank should be required of every Israeli citizen when they turn 18 instead of IDF service.
The partial model is Germany – where, after WWII, generations of youth had to face the crimes of their parents and government.
Millions of Germans were gang raped or killed. Israel might not want Germany’s fate.
I don’t think Israel will be stopped by anyone. It will never change as long as it is a Zionist state.
From the starting point of ethnic and religious supremacy, it can not live peaceably.
The US is promoting expansion of empire and has justified war crimes. Even the killing(s) plural of American citizens.
I don’t think the US empire is sustainable either. The same murderous supremacy ideation is destructive, equally barbaric and the mask is fully off.
They are putting all of us, the planet, in peril.
This.
Settler colonial states are extremely difficult to stop. Very murderous, vicious. There are histories of organizations like the Zionist settler colonists.
Belated reply here.
It’s true, my ‘humane’ holding Israel responsible for its genocide implied its rehabilitation and continued existence as a “Zionist state.”
Vs a South Africa solution – the end of apartheid by full rights of the oppressed w/100% enfranchisement.
ie – meaning dissolving the “Zionist state” by a one-state solution – both a just solution, and, arguably, bc Palestinian rights not possible under a two-state solution? See yr point, if that’s it.
The below perhaps expresses yr view?
“Israel Doesn’t Have a ‘Right to Exist” — But Israelis and Palestinians Do,” Ben Burgis, Jacobin
“We’re often told that creating a single secular democratic state with equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians would violate Israel’s ‘right to exist.’ But no nation-state has an inviolable right to exist — especially not an ethnostate based on exclusion and ethnic cleansing.”
There are youngsters of draft age in Israel who are refusing to go. I watched an interview on Democracy Now with Ms. Bennis, adviser to Jewish Voice for Peace. There is a glimmer of hope in Israel. Not much. Just a glimmer.
Relocation to somewhere spacious would be nice. I heard Syrians are moving to even Yukon, just to live.
Israelis are strong enough to do evil, but if they’re made weak enough to be victims, they could be hurt.
There’s no utopia, no “End of History.”
Latest from The Grayzone. These weekly live streams from the two best journalists in the alt-media, Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate, are a must-view. This one covers the aid workers murder among other things. I’m about to watch it and I expect they’ll cover the Al-Shifa Hospital destruction and possibly the attack on the Iran Consulate.
Ghost Kitchen – The Grayzone live
terrorists one and all. right jake?
had it coming, didn’t they. right jake?
Now you’ve done it! … now we’ll have to hear again about mass rapes, mutilated genitals, beheaded babies, roasted babies, babies hung by their feet on clotheslines, charred remains, beautiful little Leil Hetzroni … and just the whole long long 5,000 yr atrocity porn laced litany of victimhood, and all delivered in the excruciatingly familiar beaten dog tones of Elie Weisel.
…. beautiful little Leil Hetzroni…..
Wasn’t she the little girl killed by a IDF tank round that was deliberately fired into the house where she and a dozen other Israelis were seeking cover ?
The witness to the incident, Porat, a woman, witnessed the shelling. Porat said the little girl was screaming for hours. Her screaming stopped after the IDF tank lobbed a couple of shells at the house she was in.
Yea, except for the Weisel part – besides dehumanizing to justify genocide, atrocity porn is about hysteria as political style – screaming ‘WHAT DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND ABOUT BEHEADED BABIES!’ in others’ face to shut them up, to shut down political speech, political choice.
Unlike Weisel…this creep’s posts? – not one with a trace of compassion for Palestinians, of course. But, further…
…Even talking about Israelis, there is no sorrow, no attention to grieving families, to young lives lost – only the hysterical outrage.
It’s also the specious Job pose. -Why righteous me God? – the great “Innocent Victim” thesis, Weisel’s franchise.
7 Oct breakout was the trigger for the genocide. There is a history of triggers for settler colonists of different eras to issue savagery against the occupied, others.
Wow, no “bottom feeder” comments yet. I wonder why…. Maybe they’re working on a way to somehow spin this in an Israel First kind of way. Going to be a tough one…..
Let me help Jake out here. The aid workers were feeding children who might grow up to be terrorists. And feeding women who might give birth and raise future terrorists.
So the aid workers are legitimate targets. Here is a video of a state-funded Israeli settler rabbi who explains it better than I can:
https://twitter.com/i/status/1766226281505406994
‘Biden is outraged!’
‘Biden Administration Presses Congress on $18 Billion Sale of F-15 Jets to Israel,’
Israel dropped hundreds of 2000-pound bombs on Gaza …
CNN
https://www.cnn.com › gaza-israel-big-bombs
Dec 22, 2023 — In the first month of its war in Gaza, Israel dropped hundreds of massive bombs, many of them capable of killing or wounding people more …
Biden Quietly OKs More 2,000-Pound Bombs & Warplanes for Israel.https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1be1e5504a9837801fe7136f9f757f8eea92497f3cd87bcc65c9afb5c0f91779.jpg
America / Britain will back the Zionist no matter what war crimes they commit and when the GENOCIDE is complete the whole thing will be white washed Palestinians bad Zionist good even now the Brits / Yanks are trying to cover the ass of the GENOCIDAL MANIACS in the IDF and the BIBI Government .
Someone coined “Bibi the butcher”. It works.
He embraces that label. He’ll take the blame when he retires. Israel will blame him.
Racism. Refusal of refugees from “there”, while allowing Ukraine refugees, because “they are so like us”. Arabs are “them”, “different”, “shifty”, etc, etc. To make them subhuman allows for murder.
If you provide the car for a bank heist you commit a crime.
It was said they saw some one with a gun ? ,well they would say that wouldn`t they , the fact is the Zionists are GENOCIDAL MANIACS and if there is a HELL and i hope there is they burn in it.
I am surprised Israel didn’t allege to have seen a howitzer sticking out of the window of car # 1.
We saw a yellowcake from Niger, but it was really just a birthday cake, an easy mistake.
The US has reached the lowest of lows by twisting the truth and ignoring the facts to absolve itself from any responsibility. Shame shame shame.
The entire congress, the executive branch, the judicial branch can and will go lower. To the depths of darkness. Madness.
It seems that there is a campaign now to blame the victims has begun by questioning their choice to be there in the first place.
What would be the reactions of these citizens’s governments and above all and first of all the US government had it be another country committing the same crime other than Israel ?
As I have repeated ad nauseam, We are all Palestinians.
The US government just sanctioned the murder of an American. You get in the way of empire, you get killed. It’s as simple and barbaric as that.
We are all Palestinians.
For once I agree with the sentiment behind that statement. Unfortunately, it brings back memories of McCain. Of course, he’d be saying we are all Israelis.
Some of us are, in the state dept.
Correction: “Israel Accidentally Bombed Foreign Aid Workers Three Times…”
I guess the Israelis were just having a bad day. Understandable…… (sarcasm alert)
No, Israel is not claiming it was an accident. They say it was intentional because they heard a rumor that a Hamas fighter might be in one of the vehicles.
You cannot get any more EVIL than this…!!!
Israel has consciously chosen to become a pariah – and they’re reveling in it.
EVIL PARIAH…!
A downvote? Really? Guess we’re not on the same page. Blocked.
Seemed like you were on the same page. Maybe he’s all thumbs and hit the wrong button.
Wondering if automatic AI targeting was involved. More likely is some Brooklyn twentysomething sitting Tel Aviv playing genocide video games.
Many of the settlers in the West Bank ARE from the U.S.
It can’t happen here. Because I’ve been checking it out baby. I checked it out a couple of times, and I’m telling you it can’t happen here. Oh darling it’s important that you believe me bah bah bop bop that it can’t happen here.
Would we have recognized that these aid workers were not “accidentally” killed if they had been lined up against a wall and executed? Probably” not. There have been almost 200 aid workers “accidentally” killed in this war. The lying ba$tards are adept at killing non-combatants.
More than 170 journalists have been murdered as well.
Our state department is filled with a bunch of dicks.
Correction: that have no dicks. Having a dick presupposes being a man. They are not men (speaking only of the men I see spewing their lies). Gruesome hangmen is what they are. D*mn all to h*ll, I voted for the hangman in charge, f*cking Biden. Now we have to chose between him and the mouth that will not shut up, or a nutcase (RFK, Jr.) WTF!
The mouth says we can “lend” instead of give money to Ukraine! Brilliant! (Sarcasm)
100% deliberate. Israel wants it known that no aid is to be delivered to Gaza, period. Absolute evil
Arrogant sick murderous bastards.
They are not “sick”. To be “sick” is to not be in control. You can bet your bippy they are in control of their responses to the orders from AIPAC.
When do the War Criminals in D.C. get arrested? Civilization can NOT wait 30, 40 50 years, we see the Genocide now, the world is witnessing the massacre of defenseless people now, so what is the ICC waiting for? Kirby is a LIAR, Blinken is a LIAR, Biden is a LIAR, Miller is a LIAR and not one Journalist has the courage to stand up to them, challenge them on their LIES. Congress is completely derelict in upholding our Constitution, so please vote these Reps and Dems OUT.
Does anyone think Israel is actually fighting a US proxy war (like Ukraine) and not the other way around?
They have really dropped the mask.
And 97% of Jewish Israelis (not the Arab citizens) support it. Many of those polled even want the military to be MORE violent.
7Oct was the trigger that dropped the mask. Killing their own as well as Palestinians.
Yet that smarmy, condescending, dishonest fuck managed to make Rear Admiral in the US Navy. Makes me ashamed of my military; far from promoting the “best” we have a terrible record of promoting dishonest, amoral suckups who will say whatever they are told to, like Kirby, Petraeus, Milley, Austin, Mattis, Keane, the odious Ben Hodges, etc.
Just imaging the faux outrage Kirby would be spouting if Russia intentionally targeted, three times, a marked aid convoy in Ukraine. He’d be apoplectic. Not that it would be any less of a tragedy, but the hypocrisy is disgusting.
I get it; Israel can’t be expected to have “seen” the very clear markings on the roofs of these vehicles, just as, in 1967, they couldn’t have been expected to “see” the immense US flag on the USS Liberty, before repeatedly bombing and strafing it. But of course, it doesn’t matter because HAMAS is “bad”. Even when no HAMAS is present, as in the West Bank, it’s still OK for the IDF to kill Palestinians at will, because HAMAS is “bad”. “Oct 7!! Oct 7!!”
war cime- https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1be1e5504a9837801fe7136f9f757f8eea92497f3cd87bcc65c9afb5c0f91779.jpg
“I pledge allegiance, to the flag
of the United States of America,
And to the oligarchy, for which it stands
In the service of the donor class
spreading death and destruction to all”