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2024-04-05 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
‘Very best of humanity': the seven aid workers killed in Israeli airstrike
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Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-05 06:58|| || Front Page|| [11147 views ]  Top
 File under: Hamas 

#1 Appears WCK had a Solace Global contract. You decide.

X - Truth Signal.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-05 07:09||   2024-04-05 07:09|| Front Page Top

#2 Better than George Floyd?
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-05 07:09||   2024-04-05 07:09|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ Ow!
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-05 07:30||   2024-04-05 07:30|| Front Page Top

#4 You know, no Israeli actually seen the bodies
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-05 07:52||   2024-04-05 07:52|| Front Page Top

#5 You go into a war zone, expect war zone stuff to happen. Diplomat, doctors, journalists, and cooks. No exceptions.
That's why it's prefered to not be there.
Posted by ed in texas 2024-04-05 08:50||   2024-04-05 08:50|| Front Page Top

#6 Perhaps they missed the class on the hazards of keying a SATCOM phone in a combat zone.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-05 09:01||   2024-04-05 09:01|| Front Page Top

#7 'Now my grandson will grow up without having his father:' Heartbroken parents of aid worker Jacob Flickinger say their son was reluctant to go to Gaza but felt a need to help

"their son, who started working with food relief organization World Central Kitchen in Mexico last year"
Posted by Skidmark 2024-04-05 09:05||   2024-04-05 09:05|| Front Page Top

#8 Big Bezos funded operation.
Posted by Huputle+Cherelet4131 2024-04-05 09:42||   2024-04-05 09:42|| Front Page Top

#9 Serious holes in this narrative.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-04-05 09:46||   2024-04-05 09:46|| Front Page Top

#10 In all honesty how many of these aid orgs are used as spook hidey holes and for flipping countries like the United States now tell the TRUTH and be HONEST! do not hurt yourselves laughing ! I am pretty sure psychopaths and sociopaths lie a lot or all the time!
Posted by Jack+Creanter7508 2024-04-05 09:51||   2024-04-05 09:51|| Front Page Top

#11 IDF explains mistaken deaths of WCK aid workers, consequences in place

To me it smells like Hell - but I am prejudiced.
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-05 09:54||   2024-04-05 09:54|| Front Page Top

#12 
Posted by DarthVader 2024-04-05 09:56||   2024-04-05 09:56|| Front Page Top

#13 Well to start with, at their age, a week ago the security detail would have been painted as Afghan baby killers who pissed on crayons.

And the Flickinger dude, I've heard that name somewhere before.

I mean, what is it they needed a face-to-face with 'someone' and didn't want to use telecommunications? Can't fault them for armored landcruisers, hell I wouldn't go to Lakeshore Drive without one, but what is this courier mission? Which went off of the approved routes.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-04-05 10:13||   2024-04-05 10:13|| Front Page Top

#14 And the 'triple tap' hyperbole. No, three targets each hit once, not one target three times. Its stinks bad.
Posted by swksvolFF 2024-04-05 10:18||   2024-04-05 10:18|| Front Page Top

#15 Brazil’s Lula: 12.3 million children died in Gaza during war
Posted by Grom the Reflective 2024-04-05 10:47||   2024-04-05 10:47|| Front Page Top

#16 The Open Source is spotty.

But it was reiterated to me that IDF knows everything that happens in Gaza. And I was reading WCK entered a closed military zone where hamas was holed up and WCK had a meeting that was off-limits and not-sanctioned.
Posted by mossomo 2024-04-05 12:59||   2024-04-05 12:59|| Front Page Top

#17 ^ Yes, could have been an 'unsanctioned' hostage negotiation event. Could have been a third country (bilateral) ceasefire initiative.

Doubt if it much to do with food, but that's just my suspecious nature at work.
Posted by Besoeker 2024-04-05 13:45||   2024-04-05 13:45|| Front Page Top

#18 Let the ICC make an issue of it.

Then we can have "discovery."
Posted by M. Murcek 2024-04-05 13:47||   2024-04-05 13:47|| Front Page Top

#19 
It's an active WAR ZONE.
Playing good samaritain for a youtube tac/tok video can often get you killed.
Posted by NN2N1 2024-04-05 17:05||   2024-04-05 17:05|| Front Page Top

#20 Feeding barbarians who in their own words call for the extermination of the Jews is not 'humanitarian'.
Posted by Procopius2k 2024-04-05 19:45||   2024-04-05 19:45|| Front Page Top

#21 Interesting details at the link in #11.

The drone unit said it saw a Hamas terrorist climb onto one of the trucks and fire in the air at what it called action point two.

Based on historical precedent, I would have bet on Hamas involvement as a matter of course.

As the events developed, the IDF tried to call the aid workers involved in the field and was unable to reach them.
Next, the IDF called the WCK headquarters. The WCK headquarters tried to call its own aid workers in the field, but they did not answer.

Makes me wonder if they had their phones off to avoid being tracked. But it could just be bad cell reception.

In the book Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad, the author describes an incident where troops have rolled into the city and are coming under accurate artillery fire. Somebody sees a guy standing on a balcony of the Palestine Hotel looking into a boxy device mounted on a tripod. Innocent newsie videoing the action, or a hostile spotting for the artillery? US forces go to great lengths to identify the guy, calling the hotel and various local news agencies, even calling back to the States to try to get a handle on the situation.

Unable to get confirmed ID, they eventually smoke the guy with a tank round. Turns out he was a reporter for one of the news agencies. Oopsie! Media shitstorm ensues. (note that working for Rooters or whoever does not mean he was an innocent bystander)

tl;dr: It's war, Jake. Shit happens despite our best plans and procedures.



Posted by SteveS 2024-04-05 20:06||   2024-04-05 20:06|| Front Page Top

#22 Tragic Cui Bono Ball squeaks, "Probably a collaboration."
Posted by Omusosing Gleatch5709 2024-04-05 23:42||   2024-04-05 23:42|| Front Page Top

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