World Central Kitchen founder José Andrés said in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday that the seven World Central Kitchen workers who were killed by an Israeli strike while delivering aid Gaza earlier this week were targeted “systematically, car by car.”
“This was not just a bad luck situation where ‘oops’ we dropped the bomb in the wrong place,” Andrés said. “Even if we were not in coordination with the [Israel Defense Forces], no democratic country and no military can be targeting civilians and humanitarians.”
“The U.S. must do more to tell Prime Minister Netanyahu this war needs to end now,” Andrés told Reuters a day later.
The workers were traveling through a de-conflicted zone in two armored cars, both clearly branded with the World Central Kitchen logo, when the attack occurred as the team was leaving the Deir al-Balah warehouse. They had just unloaded 100 tons of food aid, according to a statement issued from World Central Kitchen on Tuesday morning.
“Israel is better than the way this war is being waged. It is better than blocking food and medicine to civilians. It is better than killing aid workers who had coordinated their movements with the Israel Defense Forces,”
So, both armored cars were hit leaving their warehouse with their logos on the trucks, while also coordinating their movements with the IDF. So many things would have to go wrong for this to be an accident. It just seems unlikely.
Of course they were targeted. The Binden administration needs end aid to Israel unless the he also wants to kill all Palestinians. Because this is straight up a genocide. And won’t end unless we quit aiding them or they kill them are strave them to death.
At this point, I don’t think anything will stop them other than a military intervention or regime change. And I bet for any actual opposition, Mossad will be making threats and following through on them to discourage/punish it while their lobby arm will be throwing money at any domestic opposition to that opposition. Maybe even including within Israel itself.
Yeah, the IDF specifically targeted these guys.
I have a hard time seeing how this could be an accident.
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Really wish we would cut off all aid to Israel and all weapons sales.
If you provide arms and aid, that’s called vertical integration.
But then politicians would miss out on that sweet, sweet lobbying cash and votes.
I wish there was the ability to recall federal representatives.
Republicans really need the cash so they want Israel to “finish” the job.
Biden is like, “Cut it out guys”. Israel, “fuck you”. Biden, “Come on man”.
So a genocide against the Israeli people from the Arab world can begin? You guys only like selective genocide against people you don’t like
So to you “stop giving weapons to Israel” = “genocide Israel”?
Yeah, I think he’s suggesting that genociding is fundamental to the Israeli identity. To oppose it is to oppose Israel itself.
Yes. That’s literally the Arab world’s stance, that if it weren’t for American help, they would have wiped out every Jew in the middle east. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here and I’m the only one who remembers the history of Israel and how badly every nation around them wants them gone. The only thing is that Arabs hate Palestinians just as much as they hate Israeli Jews.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills here
I have to say if you think an American wanting to end their military support for Israel must be in favour of a genocide against Israelis then yeah maybe you are.
Surely you must understand some people oppose genocide regardless of the target?
I’m the only one who remembers the history of Israel
You appear to have forgotten the ethnic cleansing they committed against Palestinians at their very inception, and the one that came later, and the one they’re committing now. Unless you think that ethnic cleansing is fine when Israel does it.
They shouldn’t have denied palestinean rights. Karma is real.
