Falsehoods Unchallenged Only Fester and Grow
https://thefogbow.com/forum/
To prevent them from further aid activity? And "help" other like minded to forgo any idea of providing aid to innocent Palestinians? Who knows. The IDF is basically a terrorist organization at this point.
I would not say propaganda, but he does not say more than is publically available. He does make a reliable news digest, especially he also covers the events on the Lebanon front with Hezbollah. He is the most reliable source I have found among the tens of Youtube channels that popped up and claim to be the best new "news agency" on the events (many seem to be set up by one entity and then have the content replicated).
My understanding was that they had not unloaded the aid, but had been returning from the port where an aid shipment had arrived. It's possible that the IDF had ordered the units in the convoy to drive together. What makes no sense is why those armed upon the truck open fire upon the Israeli at night.
From thatraison de arizona wrote: ↑Thu Apr 04, 2024 10:31 am Non-IDF propaganda version of events from NYT. The first fifteen minutes is WCK background, reporting on the event begins ~17:20.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/04/podc ... tchen.html
Which is what I thought. Empty convoy on the way back out. NYT propoganda trying to make them seem bad but saying "oh they had JUST dropped off food" is just propaganda, the important thing is that the trucks were emptyThe relief convoy was hit just after workers had delivered tons of food.
https://apnews.com/article/israel-world ... b2342faa1dIsrael dismisses 2 officers over deadly drone strikes on aid workers in Gaza
The Israeli military said Friday that it dismissed two officers and reprimanded three others for their roles in drone strikes in Gaza that killed seven aid workers on a food-delivery mission, saying the officers had mishandled critical information and violated the army’s rules of engagement.
The findings of a retired general’s investigation into the Monday killings marked an embarrassing admission by Israel, which faces growing accusations from key allies, including the United States, of not doing enough to protect Gaza’s civilians from its war with the militant Hamas group.
The findings are likely to bolster widespread skepticism over the Israeli military’s decision-making. Palestinians, aid groups and human rights organizations have repeatedly accused Israeli forces of firing recklessly at civilians throughout the conflict — a charge Israel denies.
“It’s a tragedy,” military spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told reporters. “It’s a serious event that we are responsible for, and it shouldn’t have happened. And we will make sure that it won’t happen again.”
With pressure mounting on Israel, Hagari and other officials shared the results of the investigation with reporters late Thursday.
The speed of the probe and the swift punishment of five senior officers were unusual. Such investigations are often slow and in most cases end without charges being filed. Human rights activists have long complained that Israeli forces operate in a climate of impunity, an allegation the military rejects.
Still, the punishments and the apology seemed unlikely to calm the rising international outcry over the deaths of the World Central Kitchen workers, or to reassure international aid groups that it is safe to resume operations in Gaza, where nearly a third of the population is on the brink of starvation.
The army declined to answer questions about whether similar violations of rules of engagement have taken place during the war. In addition to many civilian deaths, more than 220 humanitarian workers have been killed in the conflict, according to the United Nations, including at least 30 killed in the line of duty.
Not Bibi’s, natch.
Jonathan Schanzer (@JSchanzer)
Talking to European friends in various government positions, there has been an overnight shift in views on the Middle East.
After recoiling from the images out of Gaza for weeks (even months), there is now wide recognition that this entire thing has been engineered by Iran.
Twitter•Today at 7:08 PM
Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1 wrote: 2 weeks ago, we reported on a deadly strike in Gaza. The harrowing image of children's bodies splayed around a foosball table impossible to forget.
A CNN analysis of evidence recovered and documented at the scene of the strike now points to the likely cause: a precision-guided munition deployed by the Israeli military
Our report:
Prem Thakker @prem_thakker wrote: In response to the U.S. pausing some weapon shipments to Israel to try warning them not to do war crimes, Israeli officials are now openly threatening war crimesYounis Tirawi | يونس @ytirawi wrote: Israeli MK and Likud Official Tali Gottlieb have a message to the US:
“The US is threatening not to give us precise missiles . Oh yeah? Well, I got news for the US. We have imprecise missiles. I’ll use it. I’ll just collapse ten [in Gaza]. Ten buildings. That’s what I’ll do”
‘They miscalculated’: Gaza’s floating aid pier failing to deliver in rough seas
The future of US military project costing $230m in question after weather and poor security prevent aid distribution
Julian Borger in Washington
Sun 23 Jun 2024 08.00 CEST
A floating pier built by the US military for seaborne humanitarian deliveries to Gaza has proved itself to be fragile in the face of rougher seas than expected, and the future of the whole $230m project is now in question.
The pier has been usable for just 12 days since it began operations on 17 May. On most of those days the assistance arriving by sea has had to be left on the beach as there have been no trucks to distribute it to warehouses in Gaza, because of lack of security.
The scheme has fallen far short of initial expectations. When he announced it in his state of the union speech on 7 March, Joe Biden said the temporary pier “would enable a massive increase in the amount of humanitarian assistance getting into Gaza every day”.
It took more than two months to put together the two structures required, a floating dock anchored a few miles out to sea and a floating pier to be attached to the Gazan coast. About 1,000 soldiers and sailors and a small flotilla of ships were involved in the construction, including a Royal Navy landing ship, Cardigan Bay, which provided accommodation.
Over the entire course of the pier’s operation so far, however, only about 250 truckloads of food and other humanitarian assistance (4,100 tonnes) have arrived by the planned maritime corridor, less than half of what would cross into Gaza in a single day before the war. Much of the aid that has arrived so far is stuck at the foot of the pier on a marshalling yard established on the beach.
Since 274 Palestinians were killed by Israel Defense Forces in the course of a hostage rescue mission on 8 June, the World Food Programme (WFP) has suspended the convoys that were supposed to take pallets of aids from the marshalling yard to warehouses and then to the 2.3 million people of Gaza under bombardment and facing famine. The WFP says its security review is still in progress.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/artic ... rough-seas
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Hamas plans to leave Qatar for Iraq, according to The National. The Iraqi government approved the move last month and Iran will be responsible for protecting Hamas’s leaders, offices and personnel in Baghdad, sources say
https://t.co/CubRnA3EnR
tsk tsk tsk - Mossad will feel better at home in Iraq when hunting down Hamas leadership. Even the Amercans may have some drones in the air and a hellfire missile to spare.https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/06/25/midd ... court-intlJerusalem
CNN
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Israel’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the government to draft ultra-Orthodox Jews into the military, delivering a blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that has the potential to unravel his ruling coalition.
The court also ordered the government to withdraw funding from any religious schools, or yeshivas, whose students do not comply with draft notices.
“The government wanted to distinguish at the level of law enforcement between individuals based on their group affiliation,” the court said in its ruling. “It was determined that by doing so, the government seriously harmed the rule of law and the principle according to which all individuals are equal before the law.”
